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Enclo.No. g) An extract from the Man Kwok Yat Po, Canton,
of the 7th February containing a communiqué by
General Cheung Kai-shek on the strength of the opposing
forces in China's civil war and enlarging on the suc-
cesses of the Nationalist armies.
2.
Attention is specially invited to the frank admission contained in Enclosure (c) that the Hankow
incident was the work of the masses guided by the
Nationalist Government and a step towards the estab-
lishment of a dictatorship of the proletariat on the ruins of the British Empire. This statement is issued in the name of the Central Propaganda Committee of the Kuomintang in a known organ of that party and without doubt it represents the settled policy of that section of the Kuomintang which brought about the invasion of Hankow and aims at frustrating all endeavours to reach a reasonable and amicable settlement between
Great Britain and the Nationalist Government.
3.
I would also invite you to note the admission in Enclosure (e that the boycott of Hong Kong by the Canton Strike Committee was really a weapon in the Nationalist armoury, one which the holder abandoned when it became inconveniently double-edged. Through- out the negotiations between this Colony and Canton for the cessation of the boycott, Canton never ceased hypocritically to contend that the strike and boycott were spontaneous movements having primarily an economic basis and in no way connected with the Canton Govern-
ment.
4.
It gives me much pleasure to be able to report that the vernacular propaganda bureau started
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