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Mr. Wong Kam-yuen please see the first paragraph of my despatch of the 14th April.
4.
Moreover, it cannot be said with certainty
that the communist peril has been more than scotched. The dismissal of Marshal Tseung from his command and his replacement by Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang (the "Christian General" and tool of Moscow) has been definitely decreed
by the Hankow clique. His expulsion from the Kuormin
tang is also announced by the same faction. He, on the
other hand, has unsparingly denounced the Hankow clique
as the enemies of Chinese Nationalism, and has taken
very vigorous action against their supporters wherever
he has been able to lay hands upon them. He holds
Shanghai and Nanking and has declared the latter to be
the Nationalist capital. But the Communists appear to
hold, besides Hankow, the whole of Hunan and Kiangsi
provinces; and despite rumours of an understanding
between Marshal Tseung and Marshal Chang Tso-lin the
Fengtien forces continue to threaten Nanking, if not
Shanghai. There is also in today's newspapers a hint
of a split between Marshal Tseung and General Li Chai-sum.
The cause of their dissension is said to be the matter of
punitive funds for the further progress of the "northern/expedition
but I cannot at the moment of writing arrive at any
clear picture of the position.
5.
It so happened that, at the time of the anti-
communist coup in Canton, I had before me three protests
the by the Canton authorities, all three made prior to week-end
purgation. The first was against the naval expedition
to Bias Bay, the second against the action taken in Hong
Kong with respect to the Sun Yat-sen memorial service
(see my secret despatch of the 18th March) and the third
against