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Enclosure No. 2.
Translation
(Extract from Man Kwok Yat Po, Canton, 10th March, 1927)
Views of Sun Chit Sang (Sun Fo) on the problem of how
best to keep the Kuomintang leadership undivided.
(From the Chung Wa She News Agency)
Since it was resolved in November last year to
remove the Nationalist Government and the Central
Department of the huomintang to the North from Canton, the
officers of the Government and the Party have come to the
North in separate parties. As Kiangsi was at that time
still under the jurisdiction of the reactionaries it
was decided before their departure on the journey that
they should proceed to Sheung Tam across ki Ting Ling,
then to Chang Sha, and then to Hu-peh. But just when they
were about to leave, the whole province of Kiangsi fell
into the hands of our Army, and the 1st party of officials
found it more convenient to change the route they had
determined upon, and travelled via Kiangsi instead.
There can be no question then whether they went to Hupeh
via Hu-nan or Kiangsi.
But when the Kuomintang Government reached Nan- chang, many obstacles arose, and it could not be shifted to Hupeh forthwith. Though the major part of the Government
staff entered Hupeh last month, yet a part was still left in Nanchang. Thus the centre of Government broke into
two halves, one in Wuhan and one in Nanchang. It was
not until the 21st. (February) that a protracted Joint
Conference was held in Hankow, and a definite resolution
was made that the Central Kuomintang and the Nationalist
Government should forthwith begin operations officially
in Hannow. It was also decided that a General Central
Executive Committee Meeting should be convened before the
1st March to solve all important internal and external