International Working Men’s Association 256, High Holborn, London.—W.C. 30 August 1871

Mr. Editor,

Having read in today’s Daily News that M. Renaut is attributing to the International a manifesto inviting the French peasants to burn all the chateaux they can, etc.,» Mr. John Hales, the General Secretary of the General Council of the International Working Men’s Association, immediately sent this telegram to M. L. Bigot, Assi’s defence counsel:

“Incendiary proclamation attributed to the International is a fabrication. We are ready to make a sworn affidavit before an English magistrate.”

I now hasten to warn the French public through your respected newspaper that all the manifestos printed in Paris in the name of the International since the entry of the French government troops into Paris—that all these manifestos without a single exception are fabrications”! |

I make this declaration to you not only on my word of honour, but I am ready to give you an affidavit” sworn before an English Magistrate.

I have reason to believe that these vile creations do not even emanate directly from the police, but from Monsieur B...,° an

a “Trial of the Communist Prisoners”, The Daily News, No. 7905, August 30, 1871.— Ed.

5 Marx gives the English word “the affidavit” in the parentheses after the French one.— Ed.

© Most likely, Ch. Bradlaugh.— Ed.

individual attached to one of these Parisian newspapers which The Standard (Tory newspaper) in one of its latest issues describes as organs of the demi-monde.*

Yours faithfully,

Karl Marx