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Swatow, Ningpo, Hangchow, and Soochow may have been prompted by the revelation of the Soviet programme for China discovered in the raid by Marshal Chang Tso-lin on Soviet premises in the Legation Quarter at Peking. I enclose a copy of the Bulletin for the 20th April containing the official report on these discoveries. Even though the communiqué emanates from the enemies of the Kuomintang, the vile and unscrupu- lous methods laid down in these instructions tally so
exactly with the course of events where communist
influence prevails that non-bolshevised "nationalists" must believe even against their will. The Bulletin"
is issued daily in Hong Kong by the Publicity Bureau for South China. (See Sir R.E. Stubbs' confidential despatch of the 8th June, 1922)
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It must not, of course, be assumed that the
suppression of communists involves any change of the Kuomintang programme in the matter of the so-called "unequal Treaties", extraterritoriality and tariff autonomy. On the contrary it is not even certain that Labour, once it has recovered from the first shock of
disarmament, will not again be militant against the foreign "Imperialist". Mr. Ch'an Fu-muk is among the new Commissioners of Government for Kwangtung, and Mr. Wong Kam-yuen is stated to have been permitted to carry on the re-organized "Hong Kong-Canton Strike Committee". Mr. Chan Fu-buk was at one time a noted extremist. He
was the author of a violent article in the Canton press calling for the execution of the Chinese delegates from the Colony to Canton in December, 1925, and his
brother lost his life at the time of the assassination of his close political friend Liu Chung-hoi. Concerning
Mr. Wong Kam-yuen
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