BRITAIN AND CHINA

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 127, 2 June 1927, Page 12

BRITAIN AND CHINA

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(To the Editor.)

Sir, —Mr. Thorn endeavours to cover up his retreat by making further unproved and illogical allegations. We made the definite charge that Ramsay Mac Donald was agreeable to the bombardment of Canton if the Nationalist Government attempted to clean out a nest of counter-revolu-tionaries who were receiving the support of foreign Imperialists. We furnished proof of this, and the onus is on Mr. Thorn to refute it if he can and not make silly statements about "having shifted our ground." Possibly he is better informed on the incident than the commander of the British naval forces at Hong Kong, but he does not. show it by placing the responsibility for the veracity of the statements he quoted on Ramsay Mac Donald. We prefer the statements of the late Sun Vat Sen, and the best proof of their correctness is Mr. Thorn's refusal to answer them. The fact that Ramsay MacDonald—who applauds the threats of the British Foreign Office to Chinese Nationalism and refused to vote with members of his own party against the Government in a recent debate on China —"is the only possible leader of the party" is sufficient proof of its futility.—l am, etc., S. HARRISON, For Wellington Group, Communist Party of New Zealand.