Decrease in Registered Membership of the Kuomintang Hongkong, July 28.
New arrivals from Canton report that Communists there are gradually reviving their activities among Inbourers and students, despite the fact that scores of them have of late: been' arrested and taken into custody. The remarkable decrease in the number of those who have registered this year as members of the Kuomintang as compared with last year is ample proof that many labourers are inclined more towards communism than. to the "Three Principles," some declaring openly that they do not mind even though they be executed.
Tt seems more than likely, the informants state, that before long the Communists in China will have rallied their destructive forces-—Toho. mercial and industrial organizations in Shanghai appealing for ¢o-operation and support in the campaign, while the Merchants Federation, comprising members from all the provinces, in a petition to the Ministry of Finance, declares that the enforcement of ape national products in order to make the loss consequent upon the abolition of likin is in direct contrast with the spirit of the Nationalist revolutionary movement and of Dr. Sun's principle to Io the common, peopl
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