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They have done their utmost to oppress our
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Revolutionary troops. For instance, Chan Ming Shui, Commander
of the 11th Army, who had attacked Hunan vigorously, taken
Wuhan, and fought many battles in Kiangsi, was compelled
to flee from them, while he was in Wuhan as City Garrison
Commissioner, because he was a faithful supporter of the
principles of the "Three Aspects of Democracy" and refused to surrender himself to the Communist Party. Again several
hundred students of the Wuhan Branch of the Central Military and Political Academy were also imprisoned in consequence of their refusal to support them. They would kill without
good excuse any officer or soldier, who had no sympathy
with Communism and instances of this kind were heard of
everyday. Some of them were reduced to such a helpless condition that they had to commit suicide by drowning
themselves in the river. Indeed under such influence and
gloony circumstances none of our bright and upright
revolutionary soldiers can maintain his footing or secure
a burial place.
Our comrades! The Communists under certain
pretexts have usurped our base at Wuhen which we acquired
in return for the sacrifice of the heads and fresh blood
of our military comrades, and not satisfied with this,
they have even gone so far as not to allow us to remain
there a minute. If we do not fight hard and remove the
traitors so as to render them unable to cause disturbances
at our rear, can we still have any hope of accomplishing
our National Revolution?