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They have done their utmost to oppress our
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Revolutionary troops. For instance, Chan Ming Shui, Commander of the 11th Army, who had attacked Hunan vigorously, taken Wuhan, and fought many battles in Kiangsi, was compelled to flee from them, while he was in Wuhan as City Garrison Commissioner, because he was a faithful supporter of the principles of the "Three Aspects of Democracy" and refused to surrender himself to the Communist Party. Again several hundred students of the Wuhan Branch of the Central Military and Political Academy were also imprisoned in consequence of their refusal to support them. They would kill without good excuse any officer or soldier, who had no sympathy with Communism and instances of this kind were heard of
everyday. Wone of them were reduced to such a helpless condition that they had to commit suicide by drowning themselves in the river, Indeed under such influence and gloomy circumstances none of our bright and upright revolutionary soldiers can maintain his footing or secure
a burial place.
Our comrades: The Communists under certain pretexts have usurped our base at Wuhan which we acquired in return for the sacrifice of the heads and fresh blood of our military comrades, and not satisfied with this, they have even gone so far as not to allow us to remain there a minute. If we do not fight hard and remove the traitors so as to render them unable to cause disturbances at our rear, can we still have any hope of accomplishing / our National Revolution?
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