Enclosuse No. 3.
Translation.
Extract from the Wa Taz Yat Po. Hongkong. 22nd Dec.1925.
(Preface to the Register of Military Cadets of the 3rd Term)
(By Cheung Chung Ching alias Cheung Kai Shek)
Internal quarrel brings greater calamity than foreign
invasion, and revolutionary success depends entirely on
the union and mutual love of our members. My object in
the establishment of this College under the direction of
President Sun is to teach the reasons of revolution and to
carry it out. In order to achieve success in our revolutionary enterprises, our members must first of all
have a firm and sincere union, treating the College as
their own home and their colleagues as brothers. During
the past year, the College was started with 500 students,
and later 3,000 men were recruited, and our army was
formed. In the Spring of this year, we took Chiu Chow and
Ka Ying Chow, and on our return to Canton in Summer, we
expelled Yeung Hi Man and Lau Chan Wan. On our second
expedition to the East River in the 10th moon, we succeeded
in the capture of Wai Chow despite its many strategic
advantages, and then drove our enemies out of Chiu Chow
and Ka Ying Chow. All of us fought with all bravery, and
about 600 of our men died. Indeed, they have died
gloriously, but we cannot help weeping for our loss of
them. We have shed our blood, but we have not yet done
anything to relieve the pains of the people and to make
our race powerful. The militarists are as cruel as before,
while the Powers are growing in violence. We have not
yet revenged ourselves on X for the terrible massacre
they committed, and have not yet got the shameful unequal treaties cancelled; neither the aspiration of our President has as yet been realized, nor his teaching put into
practice
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