But the Allies suddenly took the Government of Peking by the throat, filled the pockets of the mandarins and the Chinese newspapers with money and forced the Chinese government to refuse to have any relations whatever with the government of the workers and peasants of Russia. Without waiting for the restoration of the relay oe Menez Allfes seized it for themselves, in-people ina, Japan ani
vaded Siberia and forced the Chinese soldiers to assist them in this unheard of and criminal act of brigandage. And the people. the workmen and the peasants of China have not the slightest knowledge of either the truth or the reason of the invasion of Manchuria and Siberia by the greedy Europeans, Americans and Japanese. We herewith address the Chinese people with the object of making them thoroughly understand that the Soviet Government has given up all the conquests made. by the Government of Tsars which took away. from China Manchuria and other territories. The population of these territeries shall decide for themselves to which country they would like to belong as weill as the form of government which they would like to adopt in their own countries.
THE SOVIETS SACRIFICES, The Soviet Government returns to the Chinese people, without demanding any kind of compensation, the Chinese Eastern Railway as well as all the mining concessions, forestry, gold mines, and all the other things which were seized from them by the government of Tsars, that of Kerensky, and the brigands, Horvat, Simionov, Koltchak, the Russian ex-generals, merchants and capitalists. The Soviet Government gives up the indemnities payable by China for the insurrection of Boxers in 1900. The Soviet Government is obliged to repeat the assertion for the third time, for we are told that, in spite of our willingness to forgo and give it up, this indemnity money is still held in the hands of the "Allies for the payment of the salary and imaginary expenses of the former Imperial Minister at Peking and the former Imperial Consuls in China.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.