CO129-499-2 Canton situation- governor's despatches 15-1-1927 - 4-2-1927 — Page 131

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necessary to make the peasants, workmen and other classes

of people thoroughly understand the meaning of revolution.

Now the majority of the people have not only a good

understanding of the Three Aspects of Democracy, but have

also well grasped the fact that the Chinese Kuomintang is

the only leader of revolution. Since the masses have now

all a good conception of the aims and principles of the

Kuomintang and are working hard to support our revolution-

ary work, we shall surely succeed in our revolution.

"There is another point, and this refers to our

unaided condition in the past. We had not yet learned

that we could not resist the International Imperialists

without a union with the oppressed races throughout the

world. Now we have managed to get China united with all

revolutionary forces in the world and are conjointly

making an attack on the Imperialists. I think the

Imperialists will surely be defeated, and their defeat

will mean the success of the revolutionists. It is for

this that I said that the removal of the 4 obstacles

mentioned above would no doubt bring about the success of

our National Revolution.

"At present the most important thing for us is to

make clear who are our enemies. In our revolution in the

San Hoi year, we thought that our enemies were the Manchus

only. We did not realise that the militarists, old

officials, local rascals, bad gentry and Imperialists were

also our enemies. As we had a wrong conception of our

objects, we failed in our revolution in the San Hoi year.

"The British are the most formidable of the

Imperialists. Of late the British Imperialists, seeing

the development of our revolutionary influence, have step

by step adopted a well-speaking but evil-thinking policy

in dealing with us. They said in order to mislead our

people