Unification in Shanghai respectfully begs Your Excellency to draw the attention of the Government in Peking and particularly of the Waichiaopu to the fact, that at a time, when in the whole civilized world the Russian national tricolor flag is waving above the Russian Embassies, Legations and Consulates and whilst all the Governments of Europe and America are maintaining business relations with the Russian representatives legally accredited in 1917 by the recognized Russian Provisional Government, refusing at the same time to do any transactions with Bolshevik agents and their Ambassadors,"—the Chinese Government is the only one which undertook forcibly to haul down the Russian national flag and
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.