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affairs, no investors even dare to return to their country;

how can we then speak of development of property? This

important matter has therefore all the time occupied the

mind of us officers of the Government. We have taken great

pains over it, and are willing even to shed our blood, if

the safe-guarding of the property of the people can be

secured by it. (Applause). From this you may be assured

that Communism would never be carried into practice.

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Another sort of rumour against us is about our union

with Russia. We must realise that our union with Russia

is a fact. We have only to ask Mr. Sun why we should unite

with Russia. It is because Russia has abolished all the

unequal treaties. Soviet Russia after her revolution,

already had a desire to abolish all the unequal treaties

which bound upon China, and in the 13th year of the Republic

(1924) Karapan was sent and a Sino-Russian Agreement was

made, nullifying all the unequal treaties made between the

ex-Czar and China. Since she has treated us with equality,

why should we fail to work with her hand in hand? At the

beginning of December last year, when Mr. Sun was ill in

Peking. Cheung Tsok Lam asked me to see him and in the

course of a conversation he said to me "Formerly I thought Mr. Sun was a very hard man to deal with. Now I have seen

him, and have found him very honest. I sympathize very much

with the energy he had exerted during the past several tens

of years.

He has not yet made any success, and I desire to

give him some help. However, none of the Ambassadors of the

Powers likes him, and this is because he has sought the

friendship of Kussia. He then begged me anxiously saying,

"If you can get Mr. Sun to cut off all his relations with

Russia, surely I can guarantee that all the Ambassadors will

become his friends." "This is very easy", I answered, "the

reason why we have made friends with Russia is because

Russia has abolished all the unequal treaties. If the

Powers