CO129-505-4 Labour situation in Canton and effect on Hong Kong- Labour Advisory Board 27-1-1927 - 31-8-1927 — Page 13

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party, which now controls the whole country as

far North as the Yellow River, never ceases to

proclaim its unchanged determination to harass

and browbeat the foreigner until he has humbled

himself to perfect equality with the Chinese,

under which conditions, as Hankow has shown,he

can neither trade nor live in China. In this

connection I invite attention to the new official

list of Kuomintang slogans published by the

special Committee for the suppression of Com-

munism in the enclosed copy of the Canton Gazette of the 23rd May, and especially to slogans Nos.

15 and 46. In the same strain is a statement

by Cheung Ting-fan, reported in the enclosed ex-

Encle, No. 3 tract from the Man Krok Yat Po, Canton, of the

Enclo. No.

9th May. He states that the first of China's

four great enemies are the "Foreign Governments in China and individual foreigners in China."

Cheung has been a close associate of arshal

Tseung Kai-shek since the latter's first rise

to power in Canton, and he is now Chief of staff

to General Pak-Es'ung-hei (Pei Hsiung-hsi), who

commands the eastern wing of the Nationalist army based in Shanghai. Some confort may be perhaps,

extracted from the manifesto issued to r. C.C.

Yu'on his return to power as Minister for Foreign

ffairs in the new government at Manking. A copy

of this statement is published in the enclosed

copy of the Canton Gazette of the 16th May. It

thus falls in time between the statement of Cheung

Ting-fan and the new slogans. r. u, as might be

expected

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