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important matters fallen under the control of

officialdom. What is demanded is a return to conditions similar to those which prevailed in 1925-1927, when the Government could be held in check by the threat of "mass movements", popular demonstrations and huge open air meetings.

It

is hardly necessary to comment on the dangers attending this doctrine or to recall the excesses which forced the Chinese authorities to suppress "mass movements

13. The attitude of this group as regards foreign politics may be illustrated by a further extract from the pamphlet quoted above. "In her Chinese policy Great Britain has three objects

(1) to maintain the privileges which she has

secured:

(2) to foment and extend internal disunion

in China:

(3) to throw sops to the revolutionaries and keep them in a good humour.

The result has been that today China has fallen in

with British policy and the revolution is suffering from paralysis".

14.

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In a public speech delivered at Canton on the 16th of December, General Ch'an Ming-shu expressed the opinion that the defeat of the invaders was due to two causes: the first, the fact

that they had no aeroplanes and their intelligence

fault

was at it: the second, the lack of co-ordination between the Kwangsi army and the Ironsides. only hope lay in re-inforcing Cheung Fat-fui at the

moment

Their