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Neither is to be trusted an inch, but the latter

may be less fanatical in its hostility.

2.

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Mr. Wong Tseng-wai, who is referred to

in the first of the documents mentioned in the

preceding paragraph, was at one time Chairman of the Kwangtung Provincial Soviet, and has been frequently mentioned in my despatches to you during the first half of last year. He went into more or less compulsory retirement in May, 1926, owing to a difference of opinion with General Tseung over the place of Communism in the Nationalist programme. Recently there has been persistent clamour from the Hankow extremists for his return,

the object being to find a member of the Kuomintang

of sufficient standing to form a counterpoise to

General Tseung. Mr. Wong has indeed returned to political life in response to this call; but he

is at the moment in Shanghai and appears to be

working as much with General Tseung and the Nan-

3-chang as

Baclede & chang clique as with Hankow. A press report of

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his recent activities is attached. I attach also

iontof

translation of an extract from the Wa Taz Yat Po

of the 28th March containing telegrams exchanged

between the Kuomintang Municipal Department at

Chang-sha and General Tseung at Nan-chang.

Enclo No. 53.

I also enclose a translation from the

Kwok an San Man, Canton, of the 18th March con- taining a typical misrepresentation of the action

taken by the police in respect of the offensive

placards exhibited on the s.s. Tatshan" on the anniversary of Dr. Sun Yat-sen's death (see para-

graph 2 of the despatch mentioned above). The

document

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