CO129-500-2 Canton situation- governor's despatches 30-6-1927 - 8-11-1927 — Page 19

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required the seat of Government to be removed to Wuhan.

Desiring to prevent dissension, I advised our comrades at Wuhan

to have the seat of Government removed there, and to finish

the 3rd Conference of the Central Executive Committee. But

while the Conference was in progress, the Communists resorted

to military power and agitative measures. They expelled

General Chan Ming Shu, imprisoned Li Chung Kung, Clerk of

the Secretariat of the Central Executive Committee and killed

many others. They proceeded to dictate to the Central Executive Committee, thus depriving the Kuomintang of all its

authority.

They made every

them and seized the

The existence of our Kuomintang and China depend

on the success of our military work. But the Communists

always desired to destroy our troops.

endeavour to stir up dissension among revenues of various places, making me unable to pay them regularly. Further they libelled me as having allied with the enemies, and charged our energetic Revolutionists with being Reactionaries.

They practised dictatorship in our Kuomintang. For this purpose they expelled the loyal followers of the Three Aspects of Democracy and favoured anybody who had a tendency to become a Communist. They allowed no person to join the Kuomintang who had not proved that he would be ready to help the Communist Party. They sent unemployed scoundrels under the name of peasants and workmen, to create disturbance in any Kuomintang Department which was not under their control or forced the Central Kuomintang Department to order its

dissolution.

This was merely intended to destroy the organisation system of our Kuomintang and to secure unanimous support for them at the 3rd All China Kuomintang Represent- The power of our Kuomintang was entirely

ative Conference.

seized