When the Natiotialist Forces arrived in Shanghai in March 1927, Mr. Givens was the first oficial of the Seltlement to welcome Gen, Chiang' Kat-shek. He was accompanied by Mr, Tan Shao-liang, the police liaison About the time these events took place a definite break took place between Gen. Chiang and his followers in the Nationalist movement and the section of the party at Hankow which still remained friendly with "Borodin. In the meantime Communist representatives of various countries had held a conference in Hankow and set up a new organiza tion called the Pan Pacife Trade Union Secretariat. The proceedings! at this convention left Jittle room for doubt that the new organization aimed at upsetting the social system of the various countries of the Far East and replacing it by either Marxism or a species of that cult modified to sult local conditions. Agents were sent to Shanghai to help to give effects to the aims of the Pan Pacife Trade Union Secretariat These consisted at first entirely of People who enjoyed extraterritorial protection, and the Police had to be content to keep them under observa-jon and endeavour to learn some thing of their general activities. The status they enjoyed, however, rendered a search of their premises impossible and the details of the real nature and extent of their activities could not be discovered.
For some unknown reason probably not altogether unconnected with national Interests which were involved concurrently with those of the IIT International the precaution of being' extraterritorially protected agents: was later disregarded and men subject to the Chinese Courts were sent fo Shanghai and given the most! important positions in the work. Although these had several assistants enjoying extraterritorial protection they kept almost all the important papers themselves and relief for! safely on the assumption of numer-
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