The Archive · 1925

Soviet Spending Vast 8

she is disbursing huge sums of money and is gaining the favour of the unemployed who are enjoying her generosity, not realizing that they are being exploited by their diabolical friend.

Her pernicious activities _are affecting almost all industrial plants throughout China; she is bribing the labourers in order to infuse in them the spirit of anticapitalism; she is educating the ignorant labourers how to overthrow capitalism and how to attain economic equality between labourers and capitalists. All troubles, no matter how small, "occurring tween capitalists and labourers, will greatly exaggerated, thus causing strikes everywhere.

Shanghai is one of the largest centres of foreign trade and, moreover, the city is overcrowded with factories and various industrial plants. For this reason, the Communists are congregating in this port and have established their headquarters in a certain university, Koo Tsung-hung's death (which was the spark which caused the troubles of May 90), which occurred in a Japanese mili, afforded them 'a fine opportunity for propaganda work and this incident eventually culminated in the May 90 tragedy. Under the cloak of patriotism, the Communists are advocating the extermination of imperialism and economic invasion, unsuspected by the authorities and even by the] gentry, who are sometimes incl to give them their aid. In the of the Communists there is no 1

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