The Archive · 1925

Canton and Peking

Sept.

Wien the White Kuomintang and General Chen Chiung-mine heard that Peking had sent 1 delegation to Canton to pay the Bolshevik Government there a strike solatium of $100,000, they decided that the time had arrived to do something. The Peking delegates were Messrs. Kiang Yung and H. H. Kung. The plan was to send the money to the Canton Bolshevik Government, which would have to acknowledg, its receipt. This acknowledgement was to be advertised to the world as a recognition of ths Peking Government by Canton and as a sign of the final and complete unification of China. When the White Kuomintang got the news, they made it clear to the delegates as well as to Peking that there was to be no unification of China by such methods. The Bolsheviks in Canton might be willing to sign a receipt for $100,000 if they got the money. but the White Kuomintang would like to know where the money came from and to whom it was to be paid. Other embarrassing questions were to be asked. Mr. Kiang Yung, when he learned the temper of the White Kuomintang, advised his Government that it

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