CO129-500-3 Canton situation- governor's despatches 29-7-1927 - 1-9-1927 — Page 98

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new Militarism, have suppressed the power of the

National Kevolutionary Army on which the maintenance

of the Kuomintang depends. Naturally the Communists

have been much satisfied with the success of their

revolution, but our Kuomintang has only got farther

and farther from the accomplishment of their own

National Revolution. It is as though we were looking

through the wrong end of a telescope. Can such ways

of revolution be what Mr. Wong has described as having

been established by our late president with bitter

effort or were they introduced by some one else with

a view to wipe our Kuomintang out of existence ?

Mr. Wong has said at the beginning of a letter

he sent to Mr. Chang, "Since my arrival in Shanghai I have been very sorry, especially after the end of

today's meeting. Can it be that the Kuomintang which

our late President left to us has come to this? Can

it be that the Kuomintang which our late President re- organised, has come to this?" What has made Mr. Wong sorry is that we being old and unintelligent, have not known the ways of revolution. Let me give him a reply

in this own style "I have been very sorry since I saw

Mr. Wong in Shanghai, especially on receipt today of his telegram dated the 16th. Can it be that the Kuomin- tang which our late President left to us, has come to this? Can it be that the Kuomintang which our late President re-organised, has come to this ?" What has pained me is that Mr. Wong has mistaken the ways the

Communists have adopted to destroy the revolution of our Kuomintang, for the ways of our Party for the

Revolution.

In short the schemes of the Communists for

resisting imperialism, are very excellent, but it is