Enclosure No.2.
Translation.
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(Extract from Kwok Man San Man, Canton, 20th January, 1927).
Resolution made at the Provisional Joint Conference
of the Propaganda Sections of various Political Departments
at the Base -
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General Rules re Anti-British Prom ganda.
(Continued)
The great butchery at Hankow and its purpose.
(a) Details of the Great Butchery.
(i) For a whole year past the anger of the Chinese populace at the growing cruelty of the British Imperialists, has been growing daily and therefore in consequence of the recent success of the Northern Expedition, Anti-British agitations have boiled up everywhere throughout China. On the 26th December last year the masses held at uchang an Anti-British Demonstration and also at Hankow, and over 200,000 individuals took part in it. The British Imperialists seeing this could not help being striken with panic and this was the origin of the Hankow butchery.
(ii) On the 3rd January, several hundred people
at Henkow were listening in front of the Kiang Han Customs to lectures given by the Propaganda Officers of the Political Department. The
British armed marines interfered with them
without reason, and attempted to drive them away. This roused the indignation of the Populace, and thereupon several thousand unarmed people gathered to offer resistance. The British marines wounded 2 men seriously with bayonets, and 3 men slightly, killing one man. This aggravated the indignation
of
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