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respectively, and it seems possible that the struggle between evolution and revolution, democracy and communism, for mastery of the Nationalist programme has again become acute. Comrade Sun poses as the advocate of proletariat rule, while General Tseung appears to realise that proletariat rule is self-destructive and the recent repression in Canton of a few of the more outrageous forms of labour tyranny seems to have been carried out by his express orders. The rumour at Canton is that the Bolshevized extremists are calling a congress of the Kuomintang at uchang in Hupeh province, with the object of overthrowing both the party generalissimo Tseung Kai- shek and his friend, the Chairman of the Central Kuomintang, Mr. Chang Ching-kiang (341), both of whom are trying to suppress the extremists and abate the power of their "high advisor", Conrade Borodin. It is said, if the extremists succeed, that Comrade Wong Tseng-wai (**), who was head of the Canton Soviet until General Tseung ejected him, will return to China and resume office as leader of the Nationalist Party. There is at present noisy clamour from a section of the party for his return. On the other hand, His Majesty's Consul-General at Canton had learned from a very authoritative source that General Tseung, having had enough of communist and Russian interference, has convened a conference of Kuomintang leaders, to be held shortly at Nanchang in Kiangsi Province, with the intention of defining
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