Brought up to Date Canton, Oct. 30.
M. M. Borodin, a Soviet trade representative, is now in Canton, with the object of establishing relations between Russia and South Ohina, In a recent statement published in a paper supported by the local authorities, M. Borodin said:
"I believe that it 1s part of a very subtle, sometimes even unconscious propaganda to make the world believe that China is so different', so backward' that it is sorely in need of the civilizing influence of the more forward' countries. It serves as a justification for what. the foreigner does here, for extra-territoriality, foreign courts, concessions, the Customs being in foreign hands, and for foreigners assuming the role of protectors of the integrity of China and of its sovereignty. It allows foreign publications on Chinese soil maliciously to vilify and slander patriotic public men. It gives the innumerable servants of foreign interests here the opportunity of treating the labouring people of China as if they belonged to an inferior race, of looking upon them with contempt. This is called the burden of the so-called civilized countries in civilizing so-called backward countries."
Referring to the Russian revolution and the movement in South China, M. Borodin declared "All classes of the Russian people have sacrificed a great deal for the revolution. But the brunt of the struggle fell upon tipe labouring classes. It is to those who fought in the trenches in the civil war, who worked on scanty provisions to supply the army and who kept Russia cemented together, that the success of the national struggle is due. In consequence of their victory they have created such conditions of. our national development as will inevitably result in the greatest good for the great masses of the "people. As concerns the labour
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