ENCLOSURE NO.....
Translation.
43
(Extract from the Wa Kiu Yat Po, Hong Kong, 23rd May, 1927)
Detention of an editor of an English paper.
(From our own correspondent Tat)
The Ying lan Yaet Po, Canton, (Canton Gazette) was at first established by one Wu. Later the Communists wanted to utilize the paper for propaganda purposes, and on the suggestion of Borodin and Eugene Chen, it was commandered by force. Its name was then changed into Ying Man Yaet Po, and Li Tsoi was appointed by Borodin and Chen editor. Later it was transferred to the direct control of the Central Propaganda Department as an English paper of
the Kuomintang.
Li Tsoi, being appointed by Borodin and Chen, has been in close touch with them. The General Political Department has complained that he has published many items of news contrary to the principles of the Kuomintang He has called the Northern Armies "Northerners" and the National Revolutionary Armies "Southerners" and Chang (Tso Lin), u(Pei-fu) and Sun (Chuen-fang) Generals and Marshals, and has also used incorrect expressions such as Northern and Southern Militarists. He has not ended his ways even after the purification of the Kuomintang, but has actually dared to refuse to publish the slogans of the Propaganda Committee and to insert a paragraph that Japan will help Tseung Kai Shek to unify China. Seeing that Li has even gone so far in his reactionary work and refused to repent, the General Political Department has instructed the Public Peace Bureau
to keep him under observation. On the day before yesterday
he was detained by the Bureau, but was later released under the guarantee of Li Luk Chiu. It may be that Li Tsoi is not a Communist, but is merely subject to moments of carelessness