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Corps had been punished at Canton for having supported
the revolution of Chan Kwing Ming, many opponents of
the Kuomintang oried them down at the top of their
voices, and I not fearing that i would be blamed, put
myself forward to defend them, thereby appearing not
to side with the masses. But I did not work in vain
in this respect, for Mr. Wong praised me for it. Now
the Labour Unions which supported the Communists in
their revolution, have been disarmed at Shanghai, and
this has provoked Mr. Wong of the Kuomintang so much
that he blamed the troops which supported the Party
for having willingly made themselves enemies of the
masses. He also charged them for with being mad and
evil-disposed and for breaking with the Kuomintang and the masses, and asserted that as discipline must be maintained, they would never be able to escepe capital punishment. it appears to me that Mr. Wong has been too frank, and labours under the same misinderstanding as the Shi Sz Newspaper, when it cried out against the affair of the Lerchants' Corps. As regards the opinions of Mr. Wang in respect of the locking up of the seditious workmen, I have again laid myself open to blame, for I have raised arguments in favour of the masses. Pro- bably for the present I cannot get Mr. Wong to excuse
me, and we must wait until he has cause to come and weep before us, when we can only knit our brows and sigh.) But the Kevolutionary Party of Russia consists mostly
of learned and experienced members and has not been
deceived by those young men.
(Note: The Communists
do not differ in any way from Li Tsong and Cheung Hin Chung (of the Ming Dynasty). They call anybody learned