Then the Red Army came back to Canton and attacked on June 6.
After several days' fighting, the Yunnanese were defeated. These two operations gave the Whampoa Cadets great prestige. Borodin then began a violent propaganda campaign against the treaties and the Treaty Powers and tried to arouse public opinion. He was largely unsuccessful. Even when a sympathetic strike was declared on June 21, following the incidents at Shanghai, the population failed 22 respond enthusiastically.
It was necessary to create an "injeident," A great procession of stud-Jentz, workers' guilds, and coolies was organized in Canton for June 23. It would have passed off peaceably but for Russian intervention. Two Russians, one of them named Ivanoviteh, Sred—by arrangement—into th: crowd as the procession was passing near Shameen, the foreign settlement. Imbnediately after wards Chinese machine' guns, which had been concealed on housetops the night before, also opened fire, Two Frenchmen were killed and many other people wounded. fire was returned from the foreig: settlement, as the Russians ant cipated, and Canton rose in fury.
More than a month later the companion of Ivanoviteh confessed that they had been bribed to begin the firing, and his only concern was that it had taken him three weeks to collect the blood money from Borodin.
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