CO129-499-5 Canton situation- governor's despatches 11-3-1927 - 11-3-1927 — Page 88

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Enclosure No.2

Translation

(Extract from Man Kwok Yat Po, Canton. 20th April, 1927.)

Proceedings at the Banquet given by the Mass Movement

Committee to Representatives of the various classes.

Report by Chan Fu Muk and Tsang Young Po on the events

of the 15th April

Speeches by the various representatives.

A tense revolutionary atmoschere.

(From the Kok Ng She News Agency)

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At 5 p.m. on the 19th April the ass Movement Sub- Committee of the Kwongtung Special Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang gave a banquet in the Provincial Kuomintang Hall of Ceremony in honour of the representatives of the various classes and made a report of what had been done on the 15th April. There were present Tsang Yeung Po, Chan Fuk luk, Tsui Tin Sham, Ko Shing Yuen, Ho Kok Po, Li Pok Shang, and Tsang Shai Shing, members of the Mass Movement Committee and Tang Yin Wah, member of the Provincial Kuomintang Special Committee, and over 1,000 representatives of the various classes. Comrade Chai Fu Muk presided. The testament of our late President was read and after the ceremonies

had been done as arranged, than, the Chairman, announced

His

the occasion for calling the Conference and reported What had been done in suppressing the Communists. speech briefly reads as follows:-

Prior to the 12th year of the Republic there was great diversity of opinions among the members of the Kuomintang and the majority of them joined the revolution only in order to acquire place and wealth. Seeing such a diversity of opinions in the membership of the Kuomintang and feeling desperate for the progress of the National Revolution, our late President resolved to admit the

Communi st

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