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condition of affairs in Hunan, Hupeh, and Kiangsi and

all of you who are natives of Hunan, Hupeh and Kiangsi

must be aware of this. Look! you have been fighting

desperately at the front yet your parents are subject

to such hardship and misery at home. My military com-

rades! In giving up to the Communists to carry out their terrible experiments in government, the provinces

which you have won at the sacrifice of your blood and

at the risk of your lives, you have not only been un-

grateful to your country but also to your ancestors

and your own selves. They have made every endeavour

to stir up dissension among our revolutionary workmen

and peasants. Cur national revolutionary armies sacri-

ficed many lives and fought many battles before they

could take Shanghai, but the Communists fraudulently

claimed that the capture of Shanghai was the result of

their efforts and cruelly spread a libel that we

had killed 3,000 workmen after the fall of the city.

Shanghai is open to the eyes and ears of both Chinese and foreigners. How could such a groundless rumour have

arisen? Later the Communists attempted to start a

general strike so as to cause a disturbance in our rear. They were not satisfied with oppressing us with their

labour pickets who are nothing more than beggarly rascals, but went even further; they enlisted numbers of the

defeated soldiers of Pat Shu Ching and Chang Chung Chang,

furnished them with machine-guns and other weapons, and

set then to massacre our military comrades. their attack on the Headquarters of our 26th Army and 2nd Division on the 13th April, more than 90 of them were arrested, of whom about 40 wore special badges of

the Chihli and Shangtung troops of our enemies.

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