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The Coup d'etat at Canton as described in the Hong Kong and Canton Vernacular papers of April, 15th, 18th.
The recent appointment at Hankow of a new Central
Executive Comittee of the Kuomintang of which the
majority of members had Communist sympathies involved
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the supersession of Cheung Ching Kong and the relegation
of Tseung Kai Shek and his supporters to subordinate
positions. In Shanghai Tseung Kai Shek had already taken
action directed towards the suppression of the Labour
Unions and had protested direly and through the Propaganda
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Department of Ho Ying Iam's army against the action of the
Hankow party. The attitude which he adopted was that
Communism is in no way the doctrine of the Kuomintang
which holds by Sun Yat Sen's "Three Principles".
The Kuomintang however had at first welcomed the co-operation of the Communists partly because it
believed in freedom of thought, partly because the two
parties had certain doctrines
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e.g. that regarding the
emancipation of small and oppressed peoples
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He complained that the Communists had abused their provilege and had aimed at dominating the Kuomintang.
Now they have succeeded so far as Hankow is concerned
and in fact owing to them Hankow has been in a state of anarchy ever since it was occupied by the Southerners.
徐謙 For this state of affairs he blamed in particular Chui Him
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(Hsu Chien) and Tang Yin Tat. He declared the political
department at Shanghai to be disbanded and established a
new Central Executive Committee at Nanking under the
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leadership of Ng Chi Fai and Chah Ming Shu. It is
suggested that the object of Wong Tsing Wai's visit to
Shanghai was the reconciliation of the two parties and
that he went to Hankow with the same purpose but found
himself there helpless.