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organisation will be destroyed and China will be absorbed into the Russian System.)
On his return to Canton Lei Tsai Sham held a conference with his adherents including Lei Fuk Lam, and on the 13th he consulted the heads of the Kuangtung General Labour Union, the Central Organisation of the moderate Labour Unions. £t 6 p.m. on April 14th orders were given to the police and military establishments throughout the city to hold themselves in readiness, each detachment
was allotted a district in which to operate and lists
陳森 of the leaders of the Communists supplied by Chth Shem of the Kwanglung General Labour Union were drawn up. These lists are said to have contained some 100 names. Arms were served out to the police and they were supplied with armlets bearing white characters on
a blue ground. ore than ten thousand men were employed in the operations which began at midnight. Toin Tei Kwan was given the task of supressing those organisations from which resistance was expected in particular the
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"Hong Kong Canton Strikers" at the East garden, The Labour Representatives Union, The Self-Defence Corps of the three railways, The All-China Labour Association, The Railwaymen's Union, The Special Revenue Collection Corys and the Thampoa Cadets at Yin Tong barracks. Some fighting took place between Ts'in's troops and the Strike pickets as well as at Wong Sha Station and Yin
Tong where the Railwaymen and Cadets held out for a
time. By noon on the 15th order was restored and
鄧彥華 business and traffic resumed meanwhile. Talg Yin a with the police raided the Chung Shan University, the offices of three newspapers. The Man Kwok Yat Po, the
Kwok Men San Man and the Yin Tseung Po, and the headquarters of a number of Labour Unions and other Societies. During the day some thousand persons