the Land of Eastern Turkestan. Establish a free and independent Eastern Turkestan Republic, based on equality of all nationalities. In order to fully develop the economy of Eastern Turkestan, promote industry, agriculture and animal husbandry as well as private businesses. Increase people's living standards. Since the majority of people of Eastern Turkestan believe in Islam, so the Government particularly advocates this religion. At the same time it promotes religious freedom for other religions. Develop education, culture and health standards in Eastern Turkestan. Establish friendly relations with all democratic countries in the World and neighbouring countries, especially with the United Kingdom, Soviet Russia, Turkey and China. In order to protect peace in Eastern Turkestan, recruit people of all nationalities to establish a strong Army. The Bank, Post Service, Telephone and Telegraph, Forestry and all underground wealth belong to the nation. Eliminate individualism, bureaucracy idea, nationalism and corruption among Government officials. The efforts of the Turkish Islamic Republic of Eastern Turkestan to receive international recognition had failed despite the dispatching of numerous envoys by Prime Minister Sabit Damolla to the USSR (Tashkent, Moscow), Afghanistan, Iran, Turkey and India. The Soviet Union rejected all offers of dealing with Islamists. In Kabul, Kashgar representatives met the newly proclaimed King of Afghanistan Mohammad Zahir Shah and Prime Minister Sardar Mohammad Hashim Khan, asking for aid and a supply of arms. But both preferred to keep neutrality and not interfere in Chinese affairs. Other countries reacted the same way, refusing to recognize the envoys as representatives of an independent country. Although newly arrived at Kashgar in November 1933 British Consul-General Col.J.W.Thomson-Glover ( was in office from November 1933 to October 1936) was initially enthusiastic in his response to Sabit and Amirs and reported to New Delhi that should any lasting unity between the Amirs and Khoja Niyas Hajji emerge, then with nominal allegiance to Nanjing it might be possible for a friendly power to extend practical sympathy and help to the new and struggling Republic, the Government of India lost no time in reminding Thomson-Glover that the British recognized Nanjing as the sole authority in Xinjiang and that all moves to counter Soviet penetration of the area should be based, as always, on a policy of support for the Chinese authorities in the province. The TIRET emissaries who reached New Delhi in February 1934 were similarly rebuffed, whilst The Times of London commented: So far as