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breath:- "Our union with Russia is a fact...
Since the Powers have not treated us with equality, how can we speak of friendship with them? Russia
has treated us with equality, and why should we fail to treat her as our friend?...
We have
invited Mr. Borodin as our chief advisor, and he
attends the meetings of the Political Committee, where he has made all suggestions he knew without
Our alliance with Russia is
reserve...
intended to hasten the accomplishment of the revolution of China as well as of the world
revolution". He then comes to a minor matter", namely the boycott, and says "What the strikers fight for is freedom for our Chinese in Hongkong, of assembly, association, residence, speech and publication", and represents the strikers as being the political protagonists of all Chinese residents in Hongkong.
3.
Mr. C.C.Wu, as Mayor of Canton, referred
to the municipal revenue as being "far from sufficient to meet the expenditure" and he also seemed anxious to disavow communism as such, but he did not touch upon the position of the Russians or on Hongkong affairs.
4.
The impression which I have gathered from the whole affair is that Mr. Wong Tsing-wai, Mr. C.C Wu and the Strike Committee were anxious to wean the members of the "Fraternity Party" from their allegiance to the Hongkong Government and to induce them to make trouble in this Colony upon their return and indeed the arrangements for
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the despatch of the party were not unattended by rumours that the Canton Government had it in mind
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