CO129-505-4 Labour situation in Canton and effect on Hong Kong- Labour Advisory Board 27-1-1927 - 31-8-1927 — Page 25

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Enclosure 3.

Translation.

(Extract from Man Kwok Yat Po, Canton. 9th May, 1927)

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Conversation between Cheung Ting Fan, Chief of Staff of the General Officer Commanding the East Flank at the

Front, and a reporter of a foreign newspaper.

The Governments both at Peking and Wuhan are

unconstitutional.

Mrs. Sun (Man) and Liu (Chung Hoi) have been

opposed to Communism all the time.

The Communists have only a force of several ten

thousands of men, and in view of their wrong courses.

will fall of their own accord without being attacked.

The Revolutionary Armies will continue the

Northern Expedition.

Shanghai.

No anxiety is necessary as to the safety of

un the 25th April Cheung Ting Fan, Chief of Staff to Pak Sung Hi, General in Command of the East Flank at the front, had a conversation with the reporter of the Tai Luk Po, Shanghai, on the present situation. We have a version of the gist of it which we now publish

below:-

In reply to a question in respect of the three existing Governments, Cheung, the Chief of Staff, said that though three governments existed in the South and North,

only that in Nanking had any claim to be constitutional. The so-called Government in Peking was no more than a gang of avarcious and corrupt officials, all of whom had no

political influence, and only aimed at their own benefit.

It was ridiculous that the Powers still continued to

recognise it.

The Hankow Government consisted of a number of

Communists who under the direction of Borodin had misled