CO129-499-3 Canton situation- governor's despatches 12-2-1927 - 10-3-1927 — Page 6

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then, face to face with such stupendous difficulties? Can

we few executive members of the Nationalist Government and

the Kuomintang solve the situation alone? Surely such a difficult question cannot be solved merely by the efforts of

the executive members of the Kuomintang and the Government

and the commanders of the various troops. The solution, I tell you, must depend on the unanimity of such gentlemen as you with other supporters of the revolution and with the masses who have gained a good conception of the purpose of

the revolution. Without your united efforts there can be no

solution. The success of the Revolution has to depend on

the attitude you adopt towards, on the conception you have of, and the support you give to, the Revolution. If you support it with all your might, the Revolution will succeed, and your welfare and the prosperity of China will be enhanced If you fail to do so, you will have to remain as poor as you are at present, and we shall be dumb for another 100 years.

The first thing we revolutionaries have to do, is to get the unequal treaties abolished. This cannot be secured by an immediate war with England. We have no forces strong enough to fight with her. The Imperialists who all stand together have enormous military forces and financial resources, and therefore our task cannot be carried out by

war.

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What can we do then? We can only rely on the unanimity of the people workmen, peasants, merchants, educated classes and soldiers, and then we shall be powerful enough to force the Imperialists to go into conference with us, and negotiate to replace the old treaties by treaties made on a basis of equality. We have no need to sacrifice a soldier or an officer, and our unanimity will alone be sufficient for the accomplishment of our task.

I am not making any empty boast. Let me take some recent events to prove what I say. There was a strike in

Kwangtung