The Archive · 1928

Striking Piece of Evidence

A. correspondent sends us the document which we publish below, describing it as one of the most damning bits of evidence there can be ngainse the Soviet. It had reference to the recent plot at Canton, and was found among partly burned documents in the Soviet Consulate at Canton. The instruetions for the proposed rising were the following terms:

(A) To prepare immediately in Canton a general strike as a protest against the murders and arrests of labourers and seizure of the Communist party and professional unions, (B) The strike must be of short duration and demonstrative char acter. This is the only political answer which it is possible to organize at presos (C) The real aim of the Communist party in the Kuangtung Province is to collect and organize the labouring and peasant forces to suppress the right wing of the Kuomintang, and so the preparation of an armed rising isthe faun of the immediate future.

(D) To disorganize and weaken the victors of April 14 and 15) and to cause as much trouble as: possible, to clear the way for the! rising of the proletariat. It is necessary very urgently to organize a rising throughout the! whole of the Kuangtung Province against Li Chai-sum and the present government.

(H) This peasant rising must] be under the definite economic and political aims often adopted but never practised in real life.

(8) This peasant rising will force Li Chai-sum to take part! of his forces from Canton which will then give a better chance to the Communistic party and left professional tions against the Fight wing of the Kuomintang (G) At the same time it is necessary to pay attention to the troops under the leadership of those opposed to Li Chas-sum. These troops might be made: the principal supporters of the rising against Li Chai-sum.

(1) The principal aim at the} present moment is the foundation and consolidation of cells in all tho: different parts of the Canton! garrison and the steady military' preparation for the forthcoming rising.

(1) The main aim in the} military work at the _present moment after April 15 is to dteorganize the army of Li Chai sum, to cause the maximum amount of trouble and disagree mont and to weaken the different parts of the force, (J) All these aims the Communistie party and left unions can only fulfill if they do all the gigantic organization work of bringing the labourers, peasants,

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