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the ignorant people, and attempted to break down our
National Revolution with a view only to their own inter-
ests. But the Nanking Government had acted in an entire-
ly different manner. It was established purely for the promotion of the principles expressed in the "Three Aspects of Democracy", and all its projects were attempted
for the welfare of the people. Though it had only been
recently established, it had grown really very powerful.
Inquiries would reveal that no orders issued
by the Hankow Government had been signed by the entire
Central xecutive Committee, but only by those members
of it in Hankow, the majority of whom subsribed their signatures only under compulsion. For instance, Mrs. Sun (Man) and Liu (Chung Hoi) had all been anti-Communists. Tsu Him had personally forced them to sign with a revolver,
and great excitement was roused among those present. But
his power could not bring them to submission, and Tsu Him was in a mad rage and fully intended to shoot Mrs. Liu with his revolver. In the course of their quarrel, his revolver was seized by Mrs. Liu and therefore Tau could not do anything. Thus no orders of the Hankow Government have ever borne the signatures of Mrs. Sun and Mrs. Liu.
In reply to a question of the reporter of the Tai Luk Po as to the relation between Nanking and Hankow, Cheung said, "We have broken off our friendship with
the Communists and treated them as our foes. There is
a force of only 40,000 soldiers in Wuhan, of whom 30,000 are under the Command of Tang Sang Chi, and the rest belong to the old 11th Army under the command of Cheung Fat Fu. (Cheung will before long make clear his attitude). Tang is not a Communist, nor yet a faithful follower of prin- ciples expressed in the "Three Aspects of Democracy",
but