Wane Lok-ping, Ta Puciin Yunchao, were, th fers and. accompli of the Central forthe Communist, Pasty, to over: Shrow the Kuomintang. ata mang fate in China's een of Ted Terr. hey have resorted to all, "st machinations and fo'alt kinds of Knavery, in 0 Accomplish their purpose indeed, their treason against the government and the Party cannot but merit the the year with no decision.
There were few labour troubles during the second half of 1927. On May 28 the Hongkong Seaman's Union was raided. Tt was subse. quently declared to be an illegal organization and its activities were curbed. On July 4, the foreign officers of the China Navigation Company went on strike after long. negotiations over a proposed reduction of wages. This strike continued until September 8, when it was settled amicably. During the battle of Lingtan, labourers at tempted an agitation in Shanghai but this was suppressed. During the month of December, synchronize ing with the Communist efforts Canton and other part of China, a number of strikes took place in Shanghai and an attempt at terrorism was noted, but this was easily suppressed by the local Nationalist officials, The Canton coup d'état absolutely ed the political prospects of Wang Ching-wei, although he denied complicity in the plot, but other Kuomintang members insisted upon the fact that his—political machinations had made it possible for the Communists to attempt it. General Li Chi-sen demanded immediate breaking off of relations with Soviet Russia, and in due course a resolution to this effect was introduced by General Chiang Kaiz shek and the details of this action will be discussed later. Wang Ching-wel, on December 17, left for France, In Hankow and the Yanxtze Valley as well og in Canton and Shanghai, Communists were rounded up, including Russians, and were expelled, while at Hankow there was a wholesale execution of Com-ainuuists, On the 17th, the Nank-
Indirect references to the position of the missionaries in Nationalist territory have been made from time to time in the course of this retrospect, but it is impossible to give a detailed account of all their suffer ings and ill-treatment. It was a stated policy of the Communistic Political Departments attached to each of the Nationalist commands to drive the missionaries before then as they advanced towards the Yang-"Religion is opium for the "was one of their slogans, ionary became to them the tool and the agent of the eapitalist and the imperialist. The anti is of the Communists culminated in the Nanking Outrage to which full reference has already been. made. Throughout Nationalist China, the demand was insistent during the year that the mission schools and colleges should "We invite you (the foreign]
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