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you have been right in what you said, and I will do my utmost to help you." But later he and Gallen again advised me saying, "You shouldn't break with Yeung Hi Man before the 2nd June. However difficult it may be, you must mainta in
the usual attitude for the time being, so that our military
objects may be achieved. This is your duty, as a Civil Authority." In other places, however, he had harmed our plans either deliberately or accidentally, and had revealed
our secrets. They had in one instance published conspicuous- ly in the paper of their Party that the Leftists of the Kuomintang had resolved to overthrow Yeung and Lau, and in
another that Wu Hon Man held a strong position, but that Wong Ching Wai had all the time been amicable and was still negotiating with Yeung and Lau every day. Their publication
of these items in their paper before our action, was evidently intended to spoil my project and to prejudice me and Wong Ching Wai. Their reactionary intrigues were only too noticeable. Fortunately the "Heung To", their Party Paper, was issued in Shanghai, and did not reach Canton until we had overthrown Young and Lau, and therefore they did not
succeed in their attempt to ruin us. Out of every ten of our projects that had been referred to Borodin, practically nine eventually proved unsuccessful, whether we followed his advice or not. We have no need to say what he has been doing recently. He has devoted himself to monopolizing the control of the Kuomintang and to destroying the Chinese National Revolution. He has proved himself very clever in causing us trouble, but has not been able to help us in any way better than leading us into a sea of darkness. Had we listened to his words, not only the Northern Expedition could not have reached Nanking, but also we should not have
been able to reach even Wuhan. He and the Chinese Communist:
have all opposed our Northern Expedition, especially our
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