The daily worker., 1926-09-30
CHAOS SPEECH
CAUSES CRISIS
AT LEAGUE MEET
Delegate Echoes Words
of Radical Leaflet
Especial to The Daily workerl

0bNAN a. oSpl. 20. - AB LOTQ
Robert Cecil was making his way to
the league of nations assembly to
deliver speech in favor Of the
Slavery Convention, he met a group
Of Chinese students from Paris die
tributing leaflets outside the Sale de
Ia Reformation.
The noble lord instructed his fun
key to accept one Of >the leaflets and
tell him what it contained.
"a vile attack on His Majesty's gov
ernment, sir" advised the turnkey
after perusing the circular.
Dash the blighters" grunted Cecil
those internal Bolsheviki are every
where
The Lord Was Amazed.
However he paid no more attention
to the matter as the students were
quite unofficial. But what was the
lords amazement on the following
day when Hsin-chu, the official
Chinese delegate at the league, tho
he only represents Peking, delivered
hot speech in which he threw the
hooks into Great Britain, as If he had
devored the circulars distributed by
the students and was coughing it up
before the August assembly.
The British made such fuss over
Chaos speech that the president of
the assembly announced that in the
future no member would be given
the floor unless he first informed the
president what he was going to talk
about and how he was going to say
it. Here In brief is what got the
assembly's goat:
What deception for us young
Chinese to know that the most i'm
portant member of the league Of ma
tions, Great Britain, delivered and
still is delivering, brutal, barbarous
assaults on the Chinese people.
Landed In Canton.
ION the. fourth of September British
forces landed in Canton and dragged
cannon to the center of the town
which was picketed by strikers who
were aroused by the words of the
English governor of Hong Kong call
ing them bandits and pirates. This
was not only violating international
law but was material and moral ag-
gression which was intended without
doubt, first, to prepare for new Eng
lish massacres, following those OF
Shanghai and Shameen in 1925, and,
secondly, to create a situation which
would prevent the national govern
ment from pursuing a victorious cam
paign which would have freed China
WI Pei-fu, as everybody knows, is
backed by the British in order to pro-
tect their political and economic in
terests."
Protest SaVaaery.
After stating the groups version of
the Wanhsien bombardment the tract
says: 'Is It not a shame that such
savagery exists dn the twentieth cen
tury? Shame to those who lent them
selves to cowardly butcheryl Shame
to those who looked on with arms
foldedl
Mister delegates, II the league con-
tinues to permit England to do what
she wishes-if nobody interferes in
such cases-she is responsible for the
war which Is breeding in the Far East.
We and future generations are ready
to give our blood to save our dignity
and national liberty.
They Hate To DO II.
TBut 1t is great sorrow to US, con-
irmed paeifists, TO be forced TO take
recourse to arms, We wish to find
means to bring Britain to reason with
out drawing the sword, even In the
national defense. For that reason we
turn to the league, which is charged
to maintain peace,
Tool Of Big Powers.
mo protestation has been heard
here, If the league of nations is only
machine Of the great powers, which
make 1t do what they please II others
are impotent vis-A-vis those great
pewersI If those high words, justice
and equality, are just masks hiding
the faces of the great powersl II the
league is only that, then 1t has no
reasen for being,
IF the league is an instrument OF
peace, then we ought to see It acting
energetically against Great Britain's
savagery and violation OF information
al law" aE