Fo sine "CoNsUL-GENERAL" or Tur U. 8, 8, Ry SHANoHAT
Sin—The system of government, whose servant you are has, under Gate of April 10, addressed to the Peking Government a lying and! impertinent communication which it attempts to dignify with the title of Spiplomatie Note" usual to such documents, Claiming a vight to be addressed aceovding to the position occupied by them in their own government, the miscreants of Moscow begin by making reference to Chang Tze-lin, impudently omitting the milita rank of Marshal accorded by ce: mon consent to this personage. Your colleagues, with a cynical impertinence which is almost grotesque, protest "ithe fact of the yaid on the premises of the 'Military Attache' and the apartments of the members of the ala' of the 'Embassy' their ill-treatment and arrest ete, ete, 'The foul system you represent murdered Captain Cromie in the British Embassy at St. Petersburg' and also shot to death the great Patriot, Count Stephen Tsiza, who wi at the time Prime Minister of his Tt also assassinated Gene 1 Georgieff and, followed up this crime by the dastardly outrage at the cathedral of Sofia in Bulgaria, when 123 per sone were killed ' (including 22 women and two children) whilst thing, as you would also deny thet you caused to be burned at your Gen in Whangpoo Road, plots for the assazzination of public men and a general matsacte of foreigners in Shanghai (which was to have token place on a certain Saturday after-hoon when an "incident" was planned inthe north of the Inter-ational Settlement), the destruc-ion of public utilities and buildings, photographs of important persons and buildings, documents criminating persons least suspected Vat Whose names are, nevertheless, Tmown to rome of us, a vast ma: of propaganda, and you know whet else besides, The culminating imperi this torrent of words which you would call a "Diplomatic Note? is the demand for the return of the documents and other things lavsfulseized by order of the Government at Peking in its inalienable tight "and duty to protect itself.
who Kind of gorernment you represent has mot the power to demand or insist on anything. 'Your Red Army is rotten to the core' and is aiers are. beneath not ess distances, and her geographical position, Bolshevism exists also because of the bankruptey and exhaustion of Europe after the Great War. There is also another reason and it is the principal one; but the: reign of infamy is near to its end. The coming quarrel on the subject: of China and the Manchurian rail-
323 were wounded, In Czecho- ways will be settled by Japan who Slovakia, Bolshevik agents assas- will drive the Bolsheviks from the inated the Minister of Finance,! whole Pacific seaboard of Siberia. Dr, Rosin, To these cursory ex-|'Thus, Comrade Linde, a Pagan samples of Soviet terrorism 1 will nation ruled en Christian principles aad also two examples of its "ill-will defeat 2 Christian nation treatment" of Christian Russians. governed on Pagan principles.
At Ekaterinador, crucifixion wa The prinetples of law and justice one of the methods of executions are the means by which men adins living victims were thrown into an with one another their common, outfall of boiling water from a move towards good, for each man factory and bodies were buried in a has the right (0 the means of taining his end, and the State is good in so far as it assists its At Oilesea, Deutsch, chiot of the subjects towards their end. What Teheka, organized the shame of good has the hell on earth called women and the assassination of men Bolshevism brought to the people and was decorated with the order [of Russia with its desperate, half-of the Red Flag. His agents were starved, half-frozen workers who Chinese, some Jews, and were once happy men and women? negro executioner whose speciality What an end! But the power of was to pull the tendons of his moral resistance still remains, and ims while watching their faces for this reason your vil and slowing his white teeth ina imprisonment and privation caused broad smile, And 90 on ad nawsexm. death of the venerable Bishop Has mot the abomination at 'Tikhon, Patriarch of all Russia who Mos ovr, mis-called a government, was the only person in Russia who violated' every accepte custom of dared openly to oppose your Aiplomatic usage by plotting against diabolical rule, have countries to whom it has kent Hear once again, Comrade Linde, acevedited agents? Did not the the accusation of the dead Primate Moscow Charyé d'Affaires in Lon-of the country which once was don, the late Comrade Kassin, Russin:—"It is not enough that you hate in the pillage of the Treasury. have stained the hands of the Titis, the capital of martyred Russian people with the blood of Georgia whose government ofcials their brethren. You have instigate and patriots were ruthlessly mured the people to open, shameless deved by your assassins? Does nat robbery. You have befogged 1 the Poking "Note" written under consciences and stifled their convic the signature of Litvinoff-Wallach, tion of sing but under whatever recall the fact to your mind that name you. may disguise an evi! this man was arrested in Pati deed, murder, violence and robbery the was negotiating bank always' remain crimes and stolen from the State Treasury a evil that clamour to. Finis?
Heaven for vengeance. Yea, we It is farcical of your masters to are living through a dreadful time prate of the violation "of Inter-under your domination, and it will national Law in the raid very pro~ be long before it fades from the perly made on your so-called hearts of the nation, where it has Embassy at Peking, for the dimmed the image of God and im-Bolshevik system of. government pressed that of the beast." mows no Taw because it is an These are not words of defiance, absolute negation of both law and they are the solemn words of a just. justice, Tt has killed the Ladies of man who felt his people and himinidlions of innocent people and with self to be outraged by the horrors. a fiendish desperation it seeks to but who, never-Mestroy the very soul of Russia. the justice of his Do you Ynow that in tne city of cause.
"Ged will save Russia, my Moscow alone, 50,000 girls from the never doubt it for a tenter age of 11 are infected an-'The experiment anally under your loathsome régine vvism will disappear be-which you wish to have considered cause it is atheist and founded on a government and would like to see crime by eximinals, imposed on the rest of the world, From your name, Comrade Linde, The robber-l ndit Litvinoff goes 1 believe you to be of other extrac: en to state that "during the search tion than Russian, bat Iam given there were allegedly found arms to understand that you once held and documents serving as evidence officer's commission and attained of the preparation for a rising..." to some distinction in the hono:
attempted and impudent. lying' able profession of a soldier. Do Wenial of course, but the proprie-past memories arise sometimes ters of the "North-China Dail ly to remind you of the time when you News" have done China and, indeed, the whole world, the greatest of service by publishing and public-Jy exhibiting some specimens of these documents. The kind of government you represent denies every-once had the right to be considered a gentleman? You have been one of the instruments of a vile system which has put the progress of this country of China back at least 100 years and you may take my word
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