Enclosure
No. 4.
18
Précis.
(Extract from Kwok Man San Man, Canton. 23rd May 1927)
Letter from Generalissimo Tseung to all members of the
Kuomintang.
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I set out on the Northern Expedition with the object of accomplishing our National Revolution in pursuit of the testament of our President. We took Hunan and Hupeh, then Kiangsi, Fukien and Chikiang, and then Anhui and Kiang-
While we were about to accomplish our Revolution, intrigues were planned against us by the Communists at our rear. Should our comrades, who are loyal followers of the Three Aspects of Democracy, have failed to wake up to the position, they would have spelt the destruction of both our Kuomintang and Nation.
The
There would not have been any trouble among the Kuomintang but for the intrigues of the Communists. latter organised many small cliques in it, and made every attempt to stir up dissension among us. They disliked our expedition, and wanted to wait until Central China had been thrown into hopeless chaos, and then march out the troops and become the conquerors and supreme rulers of China. Therefore they promoted strikes to hinder our expedition, and occupied all the leading cities we captured, and make them their fortifications. They made every effort to
prevent the true members of our Kuomintang taking part in
any Peasant and Labour movement.
In order to facilitate our military expansion,
the Secretariat of the Central Executive Committee and the
Political Department resolved that the Government should be located in anchang. But the Communists convened a joint
Conference at Wuhan, in breach of the resoltion, and
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