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Last night,
at Wanxian up the gorges of the Yangtze,
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two British warships
fought with the local warlord.
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200 Chinese were killed, and 150 British.
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The Bolsheviks are now saying that
2,000 innocent Chinese were slaughtered.
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- We're up against a new strategy of lies.
- l see, sir.
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The students of China support a new leader,
Chiang Kai-shek of the Nationalist Party.
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He's leading an army north
to wipe out the warlords.
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- What are we to do, sir?
- We have new orders, Mr Bordelles.
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- Not to fire back.
- Sir?
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- Not to fire back.
- l don't understand, sir.
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Apparently, we're being blamed
for everything. ''The foreign devils''.
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Oh, it's an old trick, to unify people by
getting them to hate something or someone.
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Well, we're it.
They all want to get rid of us.
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Chiang Kai-shek peacefully,
the Communists in the movement by force.
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And we're supposed to grin and bear it.
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Because if we fire back, we give them
new propaganda to use against us,
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and play into the hands of Communists,
who want us to start a real war
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so that Russia can come to China's
rescue and in that way take her over.
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lt is an accident of history that we in the
San Pablo are the first American armed unit
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to come face to face with this new thing.
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How we face it can be
our great honour, or our dishonour.
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l intend that it shall be our honour.
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Our government has decided for now
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not to treat fighting between
Chiang Kai-shek and the other warlords