COMMUNISM IN CHINA

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 26, 23 October 1937, Page 5

COMMUNISM IN CHINA

-PresB AsBociation.)

"Groundless Charges oi Propagandists,, JAPANESE CAMOUFLAGE

(By Telegraph-

WELLINGTON, This Day. Respecting the charge that China is tutning Communistic, the Chinese Cotsul has received the following cablegram giving a joint manifesto Issued by the Chinese National Chamber of Commerce, the Shanghai Chamber of Commerce, the Chinese National Federat\on of Industries, the Shanghai Workers' Federation, the Chinese Cot-toli-Mill Owners Association, the Shanghai Chinese BankerS' Association, the Shanghai Native Bankers' Association, and the Shanghai Civic Association: "In all democratic countrios freedom of political belief is permitted as long as armed "force is not resortod to as a means of achieving political power. In this period of grave national Cfisis the Chinese Communist Party, having abandoned its policy of violence and land-confiseation, has openly declared its allegiance to Dr. Sun Yat-Sen's three people 's principles and voluntarily liquiAted soviet government in China and placed the former Red Army under the central command of Marshal Chiang Kai-shek. These conditions are quite similar to those which prevail in Other democratic countries. "What is being practised in China in the way of issuance of bonds has long been in effect in all progressive countries. It involves no compulsion whatever; on the contrary, all private property enterprises are being accorded the fullest legal protection. "All this, which is well known to foreign nationals resident in China, is Sufficient refutation to the groundlesS charge of Japanese propagandists that China is turning Communistic, a charge that has been deliberately made te mislead world public opiniou and camouflage Japan's real motive of subjugating China."