The following translation of an order issued by the Central Executive Committee of the Kuomintang to its members shanghai has been received from Reuter's correspondent ut Canton:—'A report has been received from the Shanghai members of the Kuomintang that the letter dated June 20 of the Chairman of the Municipal Council of the Inter~ national Settlement of Shanghai, yeply to the Senior Consul, Weatex_an intention on the part of the Council, at the instigation the illegal Government Peking, to take action detrimental to the Party. Local members, being highly "incensed thereby, have submitted proposals that the Kuomintang rescind its standing orders prohibiting anti-foreign and refrain from interfering with the a ities, as in the days before the Boxer rising, of the secret societies, the Green and Red sections of the Kolao Other members advocate 4 encouragement of a general strike the Foreign Settlement.
The Kuomintang declines to entertain such reactionary proposals and the following order is hereby issued:—Tt is. the duty of this Party to make China a really independent and sovereign State on the basis of the Party's Three Principles. Tt regards all narrow and violent anti-foreign sentiments as harmful to society and the world at large ind detrimental to the complete independence and equality of the Chinese State and race. For this foreign life and property within the affected area in accordance with international Law, thus showing its opposition to the anti foreign policy, of the Manchu Government. Since then whenever the revolutionists took up arms, they never failed to take special care to give adequate protection to foreigners. During the 1911 revolution there was not a single case of violation of foreign life and property, although—revolutionary troops were spread throughout the country. This was due to the fact that the Party's policy had had a salutary influence the minds of the people, and had been obeyed by the member: When the President of our Party, jun Yat-sen, took up office as ional President of the Re-on January 1, 1912, he declared that China should observe all the obligations of a civilized State in order to enjoy: all the of a civilized State. policy and attitude have always been clear and known to the world.
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