ENCLOSURE NO......
33
Translation.
(Extract from the Wa Kiu Yat Po, Hong Kong, 23rd May, 1927)
Detention of an editor of an English paper.
(From our own correspondent Tat)
The Ying Man Yaet Po, Canton, (Canton Gazette)
was at first established by one Wu. Later the Communists
wanted to utilize the paper for propaganda purposes, and
on the suggestion of Borodin and Eugene Chen, it was
commandered by force. Its name was then changed into Ying
Man Yaet Po, and Li Tsoi was appointed by Borodin and Chen
editor. Later it was transferred to the direct control of
the Central Propaganda Department as an English paper of
the Kuomintang.
Li Tsoi, being appointed by Borodin and Chen,
has been in close touch with them. The General Political
Department has complained that he has published many
items of news contrary to the principles of the Kuomintang
He has called the Northern Armies "Northerners" and the
National Revolutionary Armies "Southerners" and Chang (Tso
Lin), Wu(Pei-fu) and Sun (Chuen-fang) Generals and Marshals,
and has also used incorrect expressions such as Northern and
Southern Militarists. He has not mended his ways even after
the purification of the Kuomintang, but has actually dared
to refuse to publish the slogans of the Propaganda Committee
and to insert a paragraph that Japan will help Tseung Kai
Shek to unify China. Seeing that Li has even gone so far
in his reactionary work and refused to repent, the General
Political Department has instructed the Public Peace Bureau
to keep him under observation. On the day before yesterday
he was detained by the Bureau, but was later released under
the guarantee of Li Luk Chiu. It may be that Li Tsoi is not
a Communist, but is merely subject to moments of carelessness.
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