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exists. Therefore we galloped to Nanking without a halt to attend the meeting. Moreover a telegram dated

the 13th was received from Mr. Wong that it had been resolved that the Government should be located in Nanking.

Thereupon we worked hard day and night to get the Govern-

ment established there so as to enable the Central Execu-

tive Committee to meet at Nanking. As Mr. Wong had fixed the 15th for the meeting, a Preparatory Meeting was held first on the 14th by those who had already come. In

the forenoon on the 15th we waited for fully 3 hours, but we could not secure a fulì quorum. Therefore we

could only hold an informal meeting, and after that, we

waited day after day, but no proper meeting could be held.

Mr. Wong appears to have played a joke on us.

woman.

He did not come to open the meeting, but has on the

contrary poured ridicule on us from the other side,

making us look like a lecherous man waiting for a lewd

After waiting patiently for a long time, we

got the telegram of the 16th. It does not point out

that we have been trapped, but on the contrary falsely

accuses us of having "planned a meeting". Does not this sound very much like the tone of the shameless and

rascally Communists? It cannot in any way be the tone

of such an honest man as Mr. Wong. The lengthy part

of the telegrams which denounces our anti-Communist movement

and our disarmament of the workmen, is nothing but

hypocrisy and is in the very tone of the shuffling Communists.

It is in no way like an utterance of Mr. Wong.

It may be supposed that Mr. Wong is not prepared

for any anti-Communist movement and denies the necessity

of having the workmen disarmed. We presume that Mr.

Wong