The Archive · 1928

Many Factions Functioning

There are two other objections to the opening of Government otics in the Settlement without notifying the authorities here. One is thet! the Nationalist Government and'the Kuomintang are so closely related that it is impossible to differentiate them. But party activities are nat limited to the Kuomintang. There! fg the Communist Party of China, the Chinese Nationalists (really. Chinese Fascisti organization), the Anarchists, the Communist Youth, the various wings of the Kuomintang and numerous small political clubs. It is impossible for the police to know which is recognized by the Nationalist Government and which exists for the purpose of overthrow if the Government. If the Nationalist Government cannot show the Council the courtesy of a communication on the subject, the! Couneit is faced by the possibility that some of these organizations are! subversive of law and order and that some might, even be subsidized by Soviet Russia and the Communist Party of China and therefore danger to the pence of the Setts ment. The official attitude in the:

Settlement must be th of proof is on the Nationalist Government, Mixed Agents Employed There is a phase of this question Which arises from the intelligence work which is carried on in the Settlement, It is reported that the Nationalist Government employs! Chineee, Russians, Koreans -and others in an intelligence orga tion, which takes on somewhat - of the character of a C. I, D. and which therefore conflicts with the administration of the Settlement. extension of the principle of extra territoriality which was not intended when the treaties were written,

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