From The Hindu, June 13, 1925: Situation in China
An anti-Communist circular
Shanghai, June 12: The fact that discord exists among the strikers is shown by the distribution in the French concession of a quantity of Chinese circulars accusing the Communists of taking advantage of the disturbances to carry out their plots and asserting that the local Communists have received large funds from Russia. The circular says: 'We weep for the deaths of our brethren while the Communists laugh in the dark. We are fighting for our national rights and freedom, while they are selling our freedom to Russia. Citizens! It is not foreigners who are killing us but Communists.'
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