The Archive · 1927

Censorship on Hankow Messages

General Pei has also ordered a censorship to be imposed on all telegrams and letters from Hankow to Shanghai in order to put a stop to Communist propaganda.

It is becoming known that one of the compromise decisions reached I to call another Plenary Conference of the Central Executive Committee of the Kuomintang at Nanking. No date has been ject." It is suggested in political eircles that although General Chiang and his adherents have agreed to such n conference, it will not tal place, as certain events of a start-Ting nature are expected to happen! before then.

Communists in Shanghai Large numbers of Communists are known to be floating into Shanghai from all directions, both Chinese and Rassians, They are concentrating! their efforts on Shanghai now, but, in this connexion, it is curious record. that practically the entire Ganton Kuomintang including such former radicals as. Mr. Kan. Ngai Ikuang have gone over to the Right Wing and are now the most bitter opponents of the Communist Party. These Cantonese have been in Shang. bai during the past few days and have been the strongest advocates of t split between the Kuomintang and the C. P.

The Kuomintang Split According to the Chinese newspapers local branch of the Kuomintang and the Shanghai Provisional Government tave issued manifestos in support of the joint statement issued by Mr. Wang] Ching-wei, chairman of the Central' Executive Committee of the Kuomintang, and Mr. Chen Tu-hsin, preident of the Chinese Communist Party. They shy that rumours have been disseminated by the foreign Imperialists, because their interests; in China have fundamentally been disturbed with the expansion of Nationalist influence. These Impenalists ang the counter-revolution~ aries are, they say, employing Red methods to destroy the so-called Red movement and to prevent the Nationalists from fulfilling the unaccomplished desires of the late Dr. Sun Yat-sen. objects of the Association, are chigible for membership.

The following scale of Membership Fees has been arranged, Pee annum ing Members...+. Ths 80 Ordinary Members 2..cTles 10 to membership fees as

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