Delhi is concerned, the Republicans have gone to the wrong address. Xinjiang is the province of a State with which the British Government are on good terms and the delegates will get no more than the advice to settle their differences with Xinjiang before worse befalls them. In Turkey the reports of developments in Xinjiang were initially greeted by the Turkish press which represented the Turkic-speaking rebels as True Turks and the TIRET as a modern state which will advance along the road to perfection. A New Year's telegram, which was sent by the TIRET to the Turkish Government at Ankara, conveying greetings from the Blue Flag of newly liberated Eastern Turkestan to the Red Flag of beloved Turkey was widely circulated by the Anatolian News Agency, but no maternal support for the secessionists was forthcoming from Ankara and the Turkish Foreign Minister, Tawfiq Hushtu Bay, warned that nations who were neighbors of Soviet Russia must, above all, be on good terms with her. None of the regional powers wanted to make a challenge to the Soviet Union and China in their politics and to become engaged in bloody fighting in Xinjiang, which had already claimed the lives of around 100,000 of its inhabitants. This left the fledgling Republic, which was surrounded on almost all sides by hostile powers (Tungans, Soviets, and Chinese), with very little chance to survive. The Republic included the participation of Mahmud Muhiti, Yunus Beg and Maqsud Muhiti, a Jadidist. Shams al-Din Damulla was the Waqf affairs Minister while Agriculture Minister was Abuhasan, and Sabit Damulla was Prime Minister. Muhammad Amin Bughra, Shemsiddin Damolla, Abdukerimhan Mehsum, Sabit Damulla Abdulbaki, and Abdulqadir Damolla were all Jadists who took part in the First East Turkestan Republic. Christians and Hindus Hostility to Christianity was espoused by the Committee for National Revolution. The Bughras applied Shari'a while ejecting the Khotan-based Swedish missionaries. They demanded the withdrawal of the Swedish missionaries while enacting Shariah on March 16, 1933. In the name of Islam, the Uyghur leader Amir Abdullah Bughra violently physically assaulted the Yarkand-based Swedish missionaries and would have executed them all, but they ended up only being banished thanks to the British interceding in their favor. There were beheadings and executions of Christians who had converted from Islam to Christianity at the hands of the Amir's followers. The missionaries faced hostility from the Uighur leader Muhammad Amin Bughra. There were