The Archive · 1926

THE COMMUNISTS

KUOMINTANG AND

Chiang Kai-shek's Determined Campaign Against Bolshevists:

Communists Dropped from Leading Positions in the Kuomintang: Strike Pickets to be Curbed Canton, May 15.

General Chiang Kai-shek, the dictator of the Kuomintang and facting Chairman of the Military Gounch in Canton, surprised his former comrades of the afternoon of May 15, during the first meeting of the Central Executive Committee, by denouncing some of the outrages attributed to Bolshevists in South China, and suggested that, henceforth,'no Bolshevist within the Kwomintang may hold any leading post in the Party or in the Kuomintang Government. Genoeal Chiang also proposed at the meeting th: order to classify the present. memo ership and find out who are Bolshevist within the Party, the Can ton Communist Party should be asked to file with the Kuomintang Central Executive Committee a coy of its membership list.

The second generat _meating of the Central Executive of Committee of the Kuomintang was held to-day, Chiang Kai-shek, Tan Yen-kai, Tan Ping-shan were invited to preside over the meeting. Among others present were San Fo, C. C. Wu, Chen Kung-po, Kan Nat-kuan, Ling Cha-yen, Chu Peitteh, and T. V. Soong. The following agenda was arranged for the purpose of rearranging the relations between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, which, at

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