SOVIET HYMN OF HATE

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 137, 14 June 1927, Page 11

SOVIET HYMN OF HATE

AGAINST. ENGLAND AND

AMERICA

Not since the general strike has the Soviet Press been so violently abusive of Great Britain as it is now under the influence of events in China,'stated-' the Riga correspondent of the "San Francisco Chronicle" on 30th .April.' The '-' Pravda'' 'and ': Izvestia'' announce in enormous headlines " The Blood Bath at Nanking,?' <<Tho un-,heard-of Blaughter of defenceless -women and children by Anglo-British civilised murderers," "The premeditated bombardment of the most thickly populated quarters o'fNanking, "and- so forth. ■'-..■'"' The chief object of all this . hatred and abuse'is, of course, Grdat Britain, though, the United States, ''which has at last torn off' the mask and abandoned her flirtation with the Chinese revolution, "comes in for a fair share of denunciation. Whole pages of the official Soviet Press ate taken up with descriptions of "mass indignation meetings" held throughout Russia, and resolutions voicing the "toilers' " solidarity with the Chinese revolutionaries and protesting against "the capitalist murderers" as personified by the British. TEb appeal of the executive of the Contmunist International addressed to "men and women toilers of the world" is a hymn of hate.' "The civilised barbarians," it.says, "led by British and American Imperialists, have bombarded and- burnt the' city of Nanking, de-' stroyed tho'workers' district, accumulated mounds of corpses, and shot down with heavy (shells thousands of peaceful citizens.". This was done because "the recent victories of the Chinese revolution had jeopardised the Imperialist domination in China." The appeal .declares that '' tho bombardment was first *£ all directed against those fearless Shanghai and Nanking workers ;who had collected their mite for the support of the British miners in their fight against the common oppressors and in . fear and hope had followed theft- heroic stand during the strike. „ .The British Conservatives, who had carried on negotiations with Canton, now appear before the toilers of the world and especially before the Chinese, people in their true aspect as fierce bandits and murderers. The world "proletariat" is called upon "to face the truth," that Great Britain and the .United States have "started.a great war against tie Chinese people", iv conjunction with "the riffraff- of the Czarist army and the reactionary . remnants of Imperial China'? troops. . . , Only traitors to the workers' cause can prate of capitalist pacifism, and shameless charlatans praise the League of Nations which shields the nmrdcrers of the Chinese people, for; it is controlled by British Conservatives, the executioners of Shanghai, Wanhsien, and Nanking." The appeal summons "all toilers of the earth" to raise their voice in protest against this now. war, and brands as "traitors" all those who will "wash their hands and shirk action" at this crucial moment.