The Anti-Communist Entente of Shanghai knows that veritable pro-esses of social, economic, and national disintegration are at work, not only in China but throughout the world, and that these process of which' Bolshevism is only one, but, at the same time, the most formidable of them all, must be identified and remedied if we are to live, to conduct our business affairs, nay—if we are to survive at all, For the past ten years an intense ive class-war propaganda has been actively pursued in China, and, conditions being such as they now are in this country, there could be no more fertile /breeding-ground for the virus of Communism. An example of this is shown in the extravagant demands of "labour" (in Practically every case impossible of fulfilment for economic reasons) made by professiona) agitators, most of whom have been Bolshevized by foreign revolutionaries Whilst all right-thinking people should—without incurring the n of being considered idealists—st for the betterment of the condition of the working classes, we practical men know that amelioration cannot be brought about by Communism and to back four opinion we have only to fo the Tussin of to-day whose. me habitants, under the heel of Bolshevism, are living in a pitiful state of poverty and where liberty is like fa vanished dream.
The Danger to Shanghai As every one of us then is adversely affected by activities so sub-ver sive of all that makes life worth Jiving, it should require little angus ment to justify the necessity for our organization. For no. man would willingly look upon impending is through this publication, and through the Press of the world, and by collaboration swith organizations fimilae to our own, and the assist-free of members of Governments and other public persons, that. intend to make known the truth respecting Bolshevistnetivities in Shanghai, in China, and in the Far
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