CO129-500-3 Canton situation- governor's despatches 29-7-1927 - 1-9-1927 — Page 129

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(Extract from Man Kwok Yat Po, Canton. 7th June, 1927.)

The Provincial Kuomintang Department indignantly

protests against Japan sending troops to North China.

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(The Mass Movement Association has sent a letter

to the Special Council and the Mass Movement committee

proposing a Grand Demonstration Conference to appose

the sending of troops by Japan to North China, and to

support the Hong Kong General Labour Union and the

Seamen's Union.)

(From our own correspondent)

The Mass Movement Association under the Pro-

vincial Kuomintang Department in Kwangtung has been

given to understand that the Japanese Imperialists,

seeing that our National revolutionary armies have

taken Tsuchow and will soon reach Peking, and fearing

that the Chinese warlord Chang Tso-lin, their tame

dog, would be defeated, have again under the pretext

of protecting their nationals, sent troops to the

Three Eastern Provinces and other provinces in North

China, in order to help the Mukden militarists to

maintain their position in the same way as they did

by suppressing Kwok Tsung Ling in his righteous rising

in the interest of our National Revolution, and also

to realize their ambition of acquiring Shangtung and

the Three Eastern Provinces. The Japanese Imperialists

have committed many outrages in China. They were the originators of the tragic incident of May the 30th and

of the Amoy tragedy, and have committed other outrages

too numerous to mention. No one who has any feeling can

refrain from being so angry that his hair stands on end.

At the same time the British Imperialists having committed a massacre in Namshan, (Bias Bay) forcibly

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