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Telegram to the Indian Swarajists.
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Our dear friends! You and we have all been
subjected to the oppression of Imperialism. Several
years ago, unable to endure any longer the oppression
and insult meted out to us, you had a rising to oppose
the British Imperialists. At that time we hope you had
a great success. Now we have to copy you and agitate
for an anti-British movement. We believe you will have
great sympathy with it. But the cunning and wicked
Imperialists know that your alliance with us will bring
destruction upon them. Therefore they have in the last
resort had reeeurag recourse to the most high-handed actions.
Take the Hankow incident for instance. This incident
on the 3rd January this year was deliberately provoked
by them, but now as if the very opposite were the case,
under the pretext of protecting their subjects, they
have sent many marines to China and many of your brethren
who were in the service of your own country. Does it
not look as if they had sent your brethren to kill your
friends? We are not afraid of such threats, but it is
a pity that your brethren have been made the tools of
the British Imperialists. Your country has always
considered it its duty to lead the masses in revolutions,
and surely you will do your utmost on this occasion to oppose the recent despatch of Indian troops to China by
the British Imperialists. We hope that your Party will
not only advise your brethren not to act as tools in
military operations for British Imperialism, but also
prevail on them to become intimate friends of ours and co-operate with us in a still wider anti-British movement. Then you may confidently ed expect that emancipation will quickly be secured for the Chinese and Indian races. We wish you success in your national revolution.
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