893.00/6226: Telegram
The Chargé in China ( Mayer ) to the Secretary of State
[Received May 29—9:07 a.m.]
192. Under date of May 28, 3 p.m., American consul general, Canton, telegraphs in substance as follows:
The Central Executive Committee of the Kuomintang at special meeting at Canton on May 23rd adopted resolution severing all connection with the Peking Government and that henceforth party should devote efforts towards cooperation with Soviet Government. Wide breach of conservative members Kuomintang allied with Yunnan and Kwangsi military groups on one hand and radicals including present civil administration and Cantonese troops together with Russian trained and officered volunteers. Unless civil administration resigns and peaceful means found to check Soviet influence, clash seems inevitable. Ma Soo54 has been expelled from the party and has been in conference with representatives of militarist factions including Peking to fight Soviet influence in Canton. Ma Soo asserts Canton administration subservient to Russian Communist influences and receives regular financial support from Moscow. Civil Governor has promulgated order restricting religious instruction in foreign missionary and other schools. Situation in Canton more delicate than any time since death of Sun Yat-sen.55