CO129-500-1 Canton situation- governor's despatches 18-5-1927 - 9-6-1927 — Page 17

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party, which now controls the whole country as far North as the Yellow River, never ceases to proclaim its unchanged determination to harass and browbeat the foreigner until he has humbled himself to perfect equality with the Chinese, under which conditions, as Hankow has shown,he can neither trade nor live in China. In this

connection I invite attention to the new official

list of Kuomintang slogans published by the special Committee for the suppression of Com- munism in the enclosed copy of the Canton Gazette of the 23rd May, and especially to slogans Nos. 15 and 46. In the same strain is a statement

by Cheung Ting-fan, reported in the enclosed ex- tract from the Man Kwok Yat Po, Canton, of the

9th May. He states that the first of China's four great enemies are the "Foreign Governments

in China and individual foreigners in China.

Cheung has been a close associate of Marshal Tseung Kai-shek since the latter's first rise to power in Canton, and he is now Chief of Staff to General Pak-Es'ung-hei (Pei Hsiung-hsi), who

commands the eastern wing of the Nationalist

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army based án Shanghai. Some comfort may be perhaps

extracted from the manifesto issued to Mr. C.C.

Wu an his return to power as Minister for Foreign Affairs in the new government at Nanking. A copy of this statement is published in the enclosed copy of the Canton Gazette of the 18th May. It thus falls in time between the statement of Cheung Ting-fan and the new slogans. Mr. Wu, as might be

expected

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