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Enclosure No. 1.
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Translation.
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(Extract from Tsun Van Yat Po, Hongkong, 23rd Sept. 1926).
To
Telegram from Tseung Kai Shak to Sun Chun Fong.
The Press,
I sent the following telegram to Sun Hing Yuen
at Nanking on the 13th,:-
Urgent.
To Sun Hing Yuan at Nanking,
Since I attacked Wu Pei-fu I have on many occalions announced my objects in detail. But on persual of your telegram of the 7th. I find to my surprise that you are far from understanding them. Following the teaching of our late President, I have had for my object and duty the accomplishment of our nationalist revolution. Wu Pei-fu has practised tyramy, and has never mended his ways. Of late, instigated by others, he has conspired with the rebels and marched his troops into Hu-nan, under the pretext of suppressing Bolshevism, but in reality attempting to get his dream of unification by power realised. Under the instructions of my party and
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my country, I led my forces out to attack him. Wherever my army went, our enemies after short resistance fled before us, and the people lined the roads to welcome
As the result of the willing sacrifice of our soldiers and the enthusiastic support of the people, we succeeded in pacifying Hu-nan and Hu-peh in less than 10 days. How, as your telegram admits, could such speedy and complete success be achieved by brigands and tyrannical persons? Now the rebel fu
has been defeated, and you who claim to have for
your object the salvation of the comtry and the
people