have no doubt whatsoever that, on condition that the Chinese people will themselves, in the persons of representatives free from alien influences, carefully watch the Russo-Chinese negotiations, the results will be favourable, and the outcome of the conference will be to consolidate by treaty the friendship that has already been established between you and us, but has not yet been fixed in any juridical form. I _greeti you once again, Gentlemen, at our home, and, unwilling to indulge in polemics; with our common foes and refute all their insinuations and calumnies against us, T only ask you to-day, on the fifth anniversary of the Great Russian Revolution, to look carefully at the five years' history of this Revolution and: satisfy yourselves by the study of actual deeds and facts of our policy that all charges to the effect' that we are insincere and that we pursue some secret objects towards China are only lies. All our policy was and still is being conducted openly! and publicly; there is no secret for anyone. If you look at it closely, you will be satisfied that we, quite as sincerely as_ yourselves, pursue no other aim, but frank and open friendship with the people of China. On our part, we also trust that the! Chinese people take the same stand towards us, and I would wish that our commemoration in common to-day of the anniversary of our Great Revolution would make still stronger the bonds that have already been established between us."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.