CO129-499-4 Canton situation- governor's despatches 18-3-1927 - 22-4-1927 — Page 19

Enclosure No. 2.

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The Coup d'etat at Canton as described in the Hong Kong and Canton Vernacular papers of April, 15th, 18th.

The recent appointment at Hankow of a new Central

Executive Comittee of the Kuomintang of which the

majority of members had Communist sympathies involved

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the supersession of Cheung Ching Kong and the relegation

of Tseung Kai Shek and his supporters to subordinate

positions. In Shanghai Tseung Kai Shek had already taken

action directed towards the suppression of the Labour

Unions and had protested direly and through the Propaganda

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Department of Ho Ying Iam's army against the action of the

Hankow party. The attitude which he adopted was that

Communism is in no way the doctrine of the Kuomintang

which holds by Sun Yat Sen's "Three Principles".

The Kuomintang however had at first welcomed the co-operation of the Communists partly because it

believed in freedom of thought, partly because the two

parties had certain doctrines

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e.g. that regarding the

emancipation of small and oppressed peoples

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He complained that the Communists had abused their provilege and had aimed at dominating the Kuomintang.

Now they have succeeded so far as Hankow is concerned

and in fact owing to them Hankow has been in a state of anarchy ever since it was occupied by the Southerners.

徐謙 For this state of affairs he blamed in particular Chui Him

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(Hsu Chien) and Tang Yin Tat. He declared the political

department at Shanghai to be disbanded and established a

new Central Executive Committee at Nanking under the

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leadership of Ng Chi Fai and Chah Ming Shu. It is

suggested that the object of Wong Tsing Wai's visit to

Shanghai was the reconciliation of the two parties and

that he went to Hankow with the same purpose but found

himself there helpless.