The following statement has been issued by Dr. Sun Yat-sen in reference to a statement which has been reproduced in a section of the local. press from. a Hongkong paper to the effect that he "has been conspiring to bring about an alliance between China, Germany and Russia, based on Bolshevist ideals."
Dr. Sun's attention has been specially called to the words italicized, which draw from him the reply that they constitute a foolish and false statement. While he feels himself under no obligation to answer charges made in an organ of certain well-known interests in the South, Cly. Sun says that the allegation is foolish because no one could really believe that there existed in China the same historical and economic conditions which have produced the sequence of events in Russia known as Bolshevism. And the statement was false because Dr. Sun had never planned, nor even thought of the possibility of, transforming China into a Communist state. A glance into his book on the "International Development of China" would show that he held very strongly that the effective development and use of China's incalculable resources necessitated the co-opera tion of foreign capital and foreign technical assistance. He had made repeated offers for such co-opera tion in American, British and other quarters.
Dr. Sun makes a specific reference to Germany and to Russia. In his view the disarmament of Germany end the abolition of her exterritorial jurisdiction in this country have placed her, so far as China is concerned, in the category of non-aggressive Powers.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.