Enclosure No.
97
A.
Translation.
(Extract from Kwok Man San Man, Canton. 25th May, 1927)
Speech by Ng Taz Fai at the Grand Ceremonial Conference
held at the Special Kuomintang Department in the Headquarters
of the Eastern Argy, for swearing in the Executive Comt tee
and the Inspectorate.
I have made a few utterances recently, which have led
Therefore I now cannot keep
to important political changes.
myself hidden away but have to put myself forward. However,
I do not wish to make a great show.
The ceremony being held today is in celebration of
the assumption of office by the Executive Committee and the Inspectorate of the Special Kuomintang Department under the
General Staff of the Eastern Army. We are all firm support-
ers of the Kuomintang.
The Executive Committee and the Inspectorate of the
Central Kuomintang Department have duties easier than those
of the members of other Kuomintang Departments, for most of
those who are attached to the Central Department are loyal
and faithful members, while those in other Kuomintang
Departments are generally a miscellaneous collection of people. The work among the troops is still harder. All of you are setting out tomorrow, yet you have been hard at work despite the great amount of private business to which you
have to attend. This will make evident your revolutionary
energy, and I hope before long we shall meet at Peking with much rejoicing.
We are not opposing Communism superficially, and we
would advise any party which advocates such a theoretical
and