As regards the denial of Mr. Chicherin that Soviet consulates and state commercial agendtes have been ed for Communist propaganda and Chat the Soviet Consulate in Canton had anything to do with the recen' Red uprising, we are in possession of documents, taken from the Soviet Consulate in Canton, which prove conclusively the Soviet's complicity im the Canton catastrophe, A. partly-burnt document, numbered 12.857, endorsed by the Seventh Enlarged Plenaty Executive Com mittee of the Communist Third International, explains how the Com: munist Patty must take command of the peasant movement in aecotd~ ance with the programme of the 'Agrarian Revolution, and instructs, among other points, the disarming of the Mintuan or' Citizen Voluners, and other forces of the gentry, Jat the name time arming the poor fand middle class peasants to form fan army, Mr, Chicherin has laboured the point that Soviet Russia signed the 1924 Agreement with Peking, and not with the Nationalist Gove ment. Thio new-born enthusi for the Peking militarists is am ing, and may be significant as a new orientation of Soviet policy, but I think the Soviet Commissar might have pursued the point further. Article 6 of that Agreement. provides that each government pledges itself not to engage in propaganda directed against the political and racial system of the other. He might, instead of a Ant denial of complicity in events in Canton, have id that, since the Soviet Government did not recognize the Nationalist Government, therefore this article had no application to Cane ton, which was under Nationalist
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