CO129-500-3 Canton situation- governor's despatches 29-7-1927 - 1-9-1927 — Page 118

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will prove that the Communists' only aim is the

destruction of our National Revolution and that they

are prepared to enter into an alliance with their enemies,

even the militarists. In Kwangtung they have also pro-

voked the Peasant Corps to attack our troops. We have

been fighting for the sake of the peasants and workmen,

but the Communists have stirred them up to treat us as

their enemies. The peasants and workmen have been mis-

led but the Communists who have misled them, are indeed

evil-disposed and to be hated.

The methods they have employed for causing trouble

among our soldiers are evidence of their great cunningness.

I have never for a moment forgotten the hardship of our

national revolutionary soldiers, but the revenues of our

Government are limited, and we have to be satisfied with

a low wage.

Since the removal of the seat of the Wuhan

Government the Communists have seized all revenues, and

have thus made us unable to pay our troops regularly.

They deliverately planned to cause us trouble. You all

know the hardships we have suffered from it for on the

one hand they stopped all supplies of funds to us and

on the other they disseminated rumours that I had not

kept the accounts properly. Now the accounts of the

Generalissimo's Headquarters are always open to the

public for inspection and for audit. As already reported

at Nanking only a sum of $13,000,000 (apart from the

ordinary expenses) was expended for military purposes

during the 5 months from July to November last year when

we penetrated 6 or 7 provinces with a huge force of

500,000 among whom there had only been 30,000 casualities.

Thus our average monthly expenses did not amount to

$2,500,000. Let me ask if there has been any other

instance