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 largest city of Kiangsi province. Days before reaching there we began to hear of events which had spread terror throughout the trade union and peasant movement of the south. At Nananfu on March 16th we had a conference with the leaders of the trade unions and peasant unions. They told us: "The countryside is in terror; the Kuominchun (revolutionary army) has turned against the people. At Kanchow, the Second Division has assassinated the secretary of the General Trade Union and occupied the union offices; the leaders are all in hiding and communication with the city is cut off."

When we had arrived at Canton weeks before we had sent telegrams of greetings to the Nationalist government at Wuhan and to the General Staff of the Revolutionary Army, of which Chiang Kai Shek was chief. It was somewhat ironical that two days after we received the first news of the Kanchow murder, which was committed by order of Chiang Kai Shek, we received a telegram from this renegade dated Kiukiang, March 18th, which read: "I acknowledge with pleasure receipt of your telegram and express my hearty welcome for your coming visit." Signed: Chiang Kai Shek.

We immediately prepared for a thorough investigation of the situation at Kanchow. We sent a telegram to that city addressed to the Magistrate, the Kuomintang and the Trade Unions, announcing our coming and requesting that we should meet with the leaders of all the people's organizations there. As we came down the river towards Kanchow in our boats we saw a large delegation waiting our arrival with banners, music and fireworks. But we had been learning lessons in our short visit to China and we remained upon our boats, requesting a small delegation to visit us before we disembarked. The delegation came; it brought to us the cards of those awaiting us on the wharf; our translator read the cards to us; one after another they were, merchants unions, Chamber of Commerce, bankers' associations, women's culture clubs, magistrates—everything except trade unions or peasant unions. We expressed our surprise at the absence of those organizations in which we naturally had an especial interest and which had been