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Enclosure No.2.

Chan Kung Pok.

Native of Yui Yuen District, Kwong Tung.

Graduated in Peking University and then in a university

in America. When he had graduated in Peking he became

an adherent of the Communist leader Chan Tuk-sau and was

sent back by him to Canton to establish the Kwan Po

paper for Communist propaganda. Later he became a friend of Kam Cheung one of the leading officials during the regime of Chan Kwing-ming in Canton. Through the medium of Kam he suggested that the Government should establish a Labour Bureau and offered his services for

the purpose.

Chan Kwing-ming did not take up his proposal, and later he managed to persuade the Government

to finance his studies in America.

When he returned from America he went to see

Chan Kwing-ming, but the latter did not give him any important post, and he went over to Wong Tsing-wai. Then through the favour of Borodin and the support of the Communists, he became Commissioner of the Peasantry and Labour Bureau, Director of the General Political Bureau, member of the Central Executive Committee and Chairman of

the Branch Political Council.

Later he went with Chiang Kai-shek on the

expedition against Marshal Sun Chuan-fang and became Commissioner of Civil Administration in Kiang-si province.

When war broke out between Hankow and Nanking,

the Communists required him to return to Hankow, but he

delayed his return upon various excuses.

For this the

Communists