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the past year. On the first organisation of the
Nationalist Government on 1st July in the year before last
(1924), we had only about twenty districts under us, such
as those of Kwong Chow and Chiu Chow. Later by dint of the strenuous work of our comrades Kwangtung was happily
unified. At the same time our comrades in Kwangsi also worked hard and unified that province. They joined the
Nationalist Government and therefore we had the two Kwangs
as our bases. At first our comrades intended to avail
themselves of this opportunity to improve the political
organisation of the two Kwangs and do some constructive
work in that way so as to strengthen our base, and give us
the means to fight with our enemy. But it happened that
Hunan was invaded by Wu Pei-fu and Chiu Hang Tik and that
General Tong joined the Nationalist Government and fought
with all his might against the former. Therefore our
comrades conceived the plan of taking steps to defend Hunan
and checking our enemies, thus prevent ing our suffering any disadvantage in battle at such a critical time.
Therefore we gave all the assistance we could to General
Tong to overthrow the rebels Wu and Chiu. We then
thought we could leave them alone for a time. But later,
Wu and Chiu were seen to be again busily plotting against
us and so we were forced to do our utmost to resist them
and safeguard our revolutionary career. For this reason
our Government could not carry out many of its projects
such as the suppression of bandits, etc., as it had had to
devote its attention to other military affairs. Now
although the provinces of Hunan, Kiangsi, Chikiang and
Fukien have been taken by us, yet we cannot rest, for our
enemies are trying hard to do us harm. So that we cannot
yet