The Archive · 1926

Bolsheviks

The "North-China Daily News"-is receipt of a circular letter which 1as been addressed to the military] leaders of - Kuangtung, including Gen, Tan Yen-kei (former Tuchen of Hunan), by the Shanghai headquarters of the Amalgamated Organizations for the Overthrow of Bolshevism and the Salvation China, The circular reads as fol-Tows:—

"With the military forces which you control, you are, on the one hand, hoisting the banner of the National Revolution but, on the other, you are mere ' satellites serving and obeying the orders of the dictator, Chiang Chung-cheng (otherwise Chiang Kai-shek), directly, but indeed you are placing yo wwlyes indirectly under the Soviet Russians, whose Bolshevism and Communistic practices are too well known to need further explanation. Do you know the real meaning of the Revolution and the real wisher of the people? Do you know what} you are fighting for so hard, so ardently? Da you know that' our aspirations have nothing to do with Bolshevism? Do you know that the Chinese Revolution is purely a Chinese matter, with which we do} not desire foreign interference, Soviet Russian or otherwise? The Chinese Republic belongs to the Chinese people and not to any particular individual or party, but now {t is being monopolized by' Kuangtung with Chiang Kai-shek' as the compradore, for he is really nothing else, of the Bolsheviks of Russias Such acts are wrong and lead to suspicion. The revolution aims at social, as well as political, reforms, whereas the Canton Government is, monopolizing tHe sale of opium, permitting public _garnbling and imposing harsh and il taxes and practicing the viees illiterists and the old class officials, The Canton Government has given no explanation in connexion with this and therefore, it, cannot but give us reason to doubt its sincerity,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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