CO129-500-3 Canton situation- governor's despatches 29-7-1927 - 1-9-1927 — Page 115

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Reasons for the Communists' desire to destroy our

National Revolution.

Your Generalissimo's advocation of the unholding of

the authority of the Kuomint ng.

Obiects of our National Revolutionary Armies and

their activities.

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The Communists have made every endeavour to

oppress the peasants and workmen and have stirred up

ill-feelings between the peasants and workmen and our

revolutionary armies. We are working to secure the

emancipation of the whole Chinese race, and as the

peasants and workmen form the major part of the Chinese

race, we should naturally promote their welfare. But

in doing this we should make sure that we are securing

the real welfare of the bona-fide peasants and workmen,

and are not using a crowd of rascally good-for-nothins

claiming to be peasants, etc., in order to create trouble

among the bon- fide peasants and workmen. And since

our object is the emancipation of the whole Chinese race,

we should give due regard to other classes so that har-

monious co-operation may be achieved among all classes

and a new standard of living may be formed for our whole

race. If we desire to follow the ways of the Communists

the result will be class wars. Take a case where the

father of a family is a scholar or a merchant and his

sons are either engaged as farmers or workmen; in class

vers, either the father will have to kill his son or

his sons to kill one another. Thus before our enemies

the militarists and Imperialists

war will have broken out in our own homes: fathers and

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can be overthrown,

sons will have murdered one another. We cannot flerate

such a state of affairs. Our late President has warned

us

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