CO129-499-4 Canton situation- governor's despatches 18-3-1927 - 22-4-1927 — Page 103

ENCLOSURE NO. 3.

Extract from the South China Morning Post, 7/4/27.

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SHANGHAI COMMUNISTS.

Empty Denial of Soviet Principles.

HEALING EFFORT.

Shanghai, April 6. A manifesto jointly issued by the Kuomintang and the Com- munist Party has just been issued in Shanghai. Mr. Wang Ching- wei signed it on behalf of the Kuomintang and Chen Tu-shiu, the foremost Chinese Communist chief, signed on the Communists' behalf.

The statement declares that the Communist Party will certainly not disregard the Three People Principles of Dr. Sun Yat-sen or overthrow the Kuomintang or its leaders. The Communists deny that they will established autocra- tic rule by the proletariat but will establish a Republican Govern- ment by the oppressed people.

The Communists also deny that they will organise a Soviet Gov- ernment in China or take over all the Foreign Concessions by force. They assure their support of the Northern expedition, and ask that the members of the Kuomintang and the Com- munist Party should sincerely co- operate to accomplish the national revolutionary movement.

The Kuomintang members here held a conference in Shanghai yesterday to discuss how to give Mr. Wang Ching-wei a rousing welcome upon his return to power. An important conference was held in the Army Headquarters on Monday evening when Marshal Chiang Kai-shek, Mr. Wang Ching- wei, Mr. Chang Ching-kiang, Mr. Wu Chi-fai, and Mr. Tsai Yuan- pei were present. The first and second resolutions of the con- ference were not announced, but the third one ordered the Kuo- mintang and other public organi- sations to adjust their policies:

Marshal Chiang Kai-shek had a conference with the officers of the 1st. and 2nd. Divisions, now stationed in Shanghai, yesterday afternoon, at which the Marshal made a report on the real "condi- tion of the Kuomintang. "He ask- ed the generals not to pay atten- tion to rumours now current.

Marshal Chiang Kai-shek has appointed officers to censor the newspapers in Shanghai, not per- mitting the publication of haws concerning Kuomintang internal trouble.-Nam Chung Pam.