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Enclosure 3.
Translation.
(Extract from Man Kwok Yat Po, Canton. 9th May, 1927)
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Conversation between Cheung Ting Fan, Chief of Staff of the General Officer Commanding the East Flank at the
Front, and a reporter of a foreign newspaper.
The Governments both at Peking and Wuhan are
unconstitutional.
Mrs. Sun (Man) and Liu (Chung Hoi) have been
opposed to Communism all the time.
The Communists have only a force of several ten
thousands of men, and in view of their wrong courses.
will fall of their own accord without being attacked.
The Revolutionary Armies will continue the
Northern Expedition.
Shanghai.
No anxiety is necessary as to the safety of
un the 25th April Cheung Ting Fan, Chief of Staff to Pak Sung Hi, General in Command of the East Flank at the front, had a conversation with the reporter of the Tai Luk Po, Shanghai, on the present situation. We have a version of the gist of it which we now publish
below:-
In reply to a question in respect of the three existing Governments, Cheung, the Chief of Staff, said that though three governments existed in the South and North,
only that in Nanking had any claim to be constitutional. The so-called Government in Peking was no more than a gang of avarcious and corrupt officials, all of whom had no
political influence, and only aimed at their own benefit.
It was ridiculous that the Powers still continued to
recognise it.
The Hankow Government consisted of a number of
Communists who under the direction of Borodin had misled