CO129-505-4 Labour situation in Canton and effect on Hong Kong- Labour Advisory Board 27-1-1927 - 31-8-1927 — Page 40

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and aim all the time at the destruction of our true

Kuomintang and the elimination of our loyal and pure Kuomintang members and our military comrades. Ostensibly they have advocated the raising of the authority of the Kuomintang and the centralization of all military power, but in reality the Kuomintang has long been deprived

of its administrative and military power.

The Central Kuomintang Department in Wuhan has really been usurped by associated Communists, and in brief, it can be nothing but the puppet of the Communists; and indeed everything they have done, is wrong and absurd. An account of the attempts the Communists have made to prejudice our military movements would pain the hearts of you all. When our troops were mostly critically engaged in the field in Chekiang and Kiangsu, the Communists in Wuhan refused to send us any funds or any supplies of ammunition, but on the contrary created groundless and unreasonable rumours that we had reserved in Kiangsi 15,000,000 rounds of ammunition. When we were fighting desperately for our advance, we were recklessly blamed at the 3rd meeting in Wuhan for having pushed on our military movement too fast, and all sorts of libels

were poured on us. We had made all arrangements to send out our troops to assist in the attack on Nanking and Shanghai, but this was stopped by the Communists in order that we might sustain a hopeless defeat, and they even went further and advised Chang Chung Chong to come to destroy us. Can such an action still be considered reasonable" When we had taken Shanghai, the so called Central Kuomintang organ in Wuhan again libelled our troos as bandits. Our military comrades! Can you allow yourselves to be called by such a name? They have every day blamed our troops who are risking their

lives

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