CO129-499-4 Canton situation- governor's despatches 18-3-1927 - 22-4-1927 — Page 84

Enclosure No.1

10.

(Extract from Kwok Man San Man, Canton 12th March, 1927)

Generalissimo Chang earnestly begs Wang to terminate

his leave of absence.

(From Chung Wah She News Agency)

For reasons of ill health President Wang has

not terminated his leave of absence despite the lapse

of a long time. Repeated telegrams have been sent to

him by Generalissimo Chang earnestly urging him to

return. Some days ago Chang delivered a speech at the

Generalissimo's Headquarters on the occasion of the

14th memorial ceremony to commemorate the union of North

and South which reads as follows:-

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"No outsider should venture to doubt the fact of

my co-operation with our comrade Wang Ching Wai. The relation between me and my comrade, Wang,is like

that between hand and foot. We can truly say that we

two are fast friends and nobody surely can be a true

comrade of ours who attempts to prevent our co-operation,

or who deliberately creates a situation where a nominal

demand is made for his return, while in reality anything

but that return is deġired, and thus render him unable

to terminate his leave of absence and return to co-operate

with me as we intended. Unity in our party must be the

desideratum of any true comrade of ours and all must bear

in mind the past history of the Kuomintang, the

unanimity of its leaders and their high character.

I wish to monopolise the control of the Kuomintang by opposing the return of Wang Ching Wai, I should show

my self to be a man of no nobility of character, and anyone might indeed kill me for such conduct. I am quite

confident that Wang Ching Wai will see eye to eye and act

in concert with me to the end. There are no obstacles

in the way of our friendship and mutually sympathetic

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