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resorted to more drastic measures to destroy our National

Revolutionary work. In Hankow they convened an illegal Joint Conference, and refused to discontinue it in

defiance of the order of the Secretariat of the Central

Executive Committee and the Administrative Council.

The Bonference was in the hands of a small number of

men only such as Tang Yin Tat, &c. Orders were issued

without proper authority to the prejudice of the Central

Kuomintang. They then convened a 3rd meeting of the

Central Executive Committee without due approval of the Secretariat at a meeting. Under the misguidance

and dictation of the Communists within and through the

intimidation and corruption of agitators without, there was not one of the resolutions passed at the meeting

which was hot wrong and absurd, and therefore the membership

in the so-called Secretariat of the Central Executive

Communists. Though there were some true Kuomintang

members in the Administrative Council and the Nationalist

Government Council, yet the majority of them could not

attend the meeting either because of their work or

circumstances, and had no resource but to allow their

names to be used as advertisements in the interest of the

Comunists. The Communists have also established a

Military Committee by a similar method, thus placing the

lives of our 500,000 revolutionary troops now in different

places thousands of miles away from their homes in the

hands of the Communists who are enjoying a much better

standard of living than ours, only interest themselves

in Communism and the acquisition of wealth and power,

give no regard to our Kuomintang nor to the resolutions our National Revolutionary armies have made at meetings,

and