Enclosure No.6..
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Translation.
(Extract from Kwok Man San Man, Canton, 20th January, 1927)
Communique by Mrs. Sun to all her fellow-country women
on the establishment of a Class for training in Kuomintang
Affairs.
(From the Chung Wa She)
As already mentioned in our previous report, Mrs. Sung
Hing Ling Sun had been appointed by election at the Joint Conference of the Kuomintang Government to organise a class for training women in Kuomintang Affairs. Accordingly Mrs. Sun has published a communique for the information of all
Chinese of her sex.
"To all my dear sisters. Our country was very wealthy a century ago, and the people were very well off. How happy they were, living and pursuing their occupations in peace! But now we are in quite a different condition. The country is in fact full of poor peasants and workmen, toiling all day long in a miserable condition. They cannot earn enough to support their families, and we can see everywhere starving people benumbed with cold. What has brought about this condition? Perhaps none of you knows it. It is the economic victimisation the Imperialists have practised on our country
which has ever made business so dull for us. The most serious exploitation of us they have practised has been by means of the unequal treaties. The first of all unequal treaties with foreigners, was contracted in consequence of the opium was, I refer to the Nanking Treaty (1842), by which 5 commercial ports were opened. It is over 80 years since then, and many more ports have later been opened to commerce. When the Sino-British Commercial Treaty was made
in 1842, we lost in addition our Tariff Automomy, and
because of that we have no power to check the influx of
foreign goods.
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