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Presidium (GC). From <strong>the</strong> Com<strong>in</strong>tern list, if Secretary Zeng is Cheung<br />
Hong-sen, he could have been a Presidium member <strong>as</strong> well. It can be<br />
confirmed that Yong Yok-su w<strong>as</strong> no longer a PC member <strong>in</strong> July, and that<br />
Cheung Yok-kai w<strong>as</strong> not appo<strong>in</strong>ted at that time because he had been arrested<br />
<strong>in</strong> February 1928. Most of <strong>the</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r eight PC members mentioned by C. F.<br />
Yong correspond to those <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> Com<strong>in</strong>tern lists.<br />
Yong wrote that Li Chi-s<strong>in</strong> first arrived <strong>in</strong> Malaya <strong>in</strong> 1929. 28 <strong>The</strong> MCP’s<br />
official record noted that Li w<strong>as</strong> dispatched to S<strong>in</strong>gapore by <strong>the</strong> CCP <strong>in</strong><br />
1930. 29 If Li Ji xiang w<strong>as</strong> Li Chi-s<strong>in</strong>, he would have come to Malaya earlier<br />
and w<strong>as</strong> soon after appo<strong>in</strong>ted <strong>as</strong> a Presidium member.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Com<strong>in</strong>tern files mentioned <strong>the</strong> arrest and banishment of Huang Moh<br />
Hang alone. That might suggest that many of <strong>the</strong> leaders who attended <strong>the</strong><br />
Plenum were arrested afterwards.<br />
<strong>The</strong> place names of <strong>the</strong> “town committees” <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> Com<strong>in</strong>tern files are almost<br />
<strong>the</strong> same <strong>as</strong> those of <strong>the</strong> “local committees” <strong>in</strong> Yong’s account. It w<strong>as</strong> not<br />
previously known that <strong>the</strong>re w<strong>as</strong> a local committee of E<strong>as</strong>t, West and Central<br />
Borneo.<br />
Although Ho Hong-seng appears <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> respective books by Cheah and Yong,<br />
Ho w<strong>as</strong> not mentioned <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> Com<strong>in</strong>tern files.<br />
As Su w<strong>as</strong> once a secretary to Borod<strong>in</strong>, he might have been proficient <strong>in</strong> and<br />
able to write reports <strong>in</strong> Russian. Fu Tai-keng studied at <strong>the</strong> Oriental<br />
University <strong>in</strong> Moscow from 1921 to 1924 and, after return<strong>in</strong>g to Ch<strong>in</strong>a,<br />
served <strong>as</strong> an <strong>in</strong>terpreter for Borod<strong>in</strong> and <strong>the</strong> Soviet delegation. 30 It is more<br />
probable, <strong>the</strong>n, that Fu wrote various Russian language reports to <strong>the</strong><br />
Com<strong>in</strong>tern.<br />
Both of <strong>the</strong> MCP’s document 31 and Yong 32 stated that Fu Tai-keng (Fu Tach<strong>in</strong>g)<br />
w<strong>as</strong> born <strong>in</strong> 1900 <strong>in</strong> Jiangxi (Kiangsi). In this regard, Shanghai SB’s<br />
<strong>in</strong>formation w<strong>as</strong> accurate, which w<strong>as</strong> provided by <strong>the</strong> KMT Government to<br />
<strong>the</strong> SMP. As for <strong>the</strong> year Fu w<strong>as</strong> dispatched to S<strong>in</strong>gapore, while <strong>the</strong> MCP’s<br />
document and S<strong>in</strong>gapore SB said it w<strong>as</strong> 1928, Yong mentioned early 1929.<br />
Tsutsui’s conjecture of 1925 w<strong>as</strong> apparently wrong.<br />
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