CO129-500-3 Canton situation- governor's despatches 29-7-1927 - 1-9-1927 — Page 97

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into a Communist nation. " Why in 20 years?" said

Wong, "Two years will do."

On the 2nd April, in the morning, Mr. Wong said

in the house of Hung in the presence of Li and

Tsoi, "I did not know until my visit to Moscow

that the projects of the Communists were all pre-

arranged, although they could not have known how

our affairs would shape."

At the same time he told us, "The Communists treat

everybody as their tool, and will put away even

their own men of any importance, when they are no

longer required."

Thus Mr. Wong must have known that the plans of the

Communists to get Communism put into practice in China

were pre-arranged and will never be changed. He is sure that our Kuomintang which the Communists have made

their tool, will after all be put away when not required.

He is also aware that it will only take two years to

make China a Communist nation, though Chan Tuk Sau has

appeased his friends with 20 years.

Have we then been pushing on the revolution

merely in the interests of the Communists? Honest and

frank indeed is the slogan "Anti-Communist is counter revolutionary". The Chung Yeung Yat Po of Hankow in

its issue of April the 12th, praised Tsoi, Li and me

for being all loyal and honest, but added that we did

not know how to run a revolution. In saying this it

referred to the tactics of the armed workmen who pro-

claimed that in aggravating the Imperialists until

they committed atrocities they were carrying out an

anti-Imperialist policy, whereas in reality they were

working to secure complete victory for the armed violen-

ce of Communism, and under the pretext of preventing

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