Enclosure No. 2.
47
Translation.
(Extract from Man Kwok Yat Po, Canton, 22nd April, 1927).
Reasons why the Chinese Communists should be exterminated. Speech by Tsang Young Po at a banquet in honour of the
Representatives of all classes at the headquarters of the
Mass Movement Commission.
Comrades: Comrades of all classes! A detailed report
has already been given you by our Comrade Chan Fu Muk of
what has been done to wipe out the Communists. What I am now
going to tell you is the reasons why the Chinese Comunists
should be exterminated.
We know that a great many people are opposed to Communism. The Imperialists, the Militarists, the local rascals, the degenerate gentry, and the corrupt and avaricious officials
are all opposed to it. Now the Kuomintang is also opposing
the Chinese Communists. They are not only opposing them, but
they want to exterminate them entirely.
But we must examine clearly whether our Kuomintang in
opposing and exterminating the Communists is motived by the
same reason as the Imperialists, Militarists, local rascals,
degenerate gentry and corrupt and avaricious officials.
The reasons we have for opposing and exterminating the
Chinese Communists are in fact entirely different from those
of the Imperialists, Militarists and reactionaries. Our
Kuomintang is a revolutionary party. For opposing and
exterminating the Communists we have some important and
irrefutable arguments. Now let me outline for you some of
the chief of these.
(1) We must wipe out the Chinese Communists in order
to safeguard the Kuomintang's continued existence.