The Malayan Communist Party as Recorded in the Comintern Files

Shanghai. In general, communications between the FEB and the leading circles of
the CCP in Shanghai were comparatively smooth but those between the FEB and
CCP’s various organizations in other places did not pass easily then.
When he stayed in Hong Kong, Ho Chi Minh sent mail to the FEB in Shanghai. Ho
used such pseudonyms as L.M. Vuong and Wang Shan-yi. 16
With regard to Ho Chi Minh’s letters, Kurihara has also written that between 1930 and 1931,
mainly based in Hong Kong, Nguyen (Ho) wrote letters to the ES using different pseudonyms.
Once Ho intended to use the name of L. M. Wang. 17
From C. F. Yong’s account, Fu Hung-chi (Fu Hung Chu), a Hainanese leader who was then
Chairman of the Malayan General Seamen’s Union, was promoted to chief of the MCP in June
1931. Fu was reported to have received some political training in Moscow before obtaining those
appointments. He was dispatched to Shanghai in the latter part of 1931 on a mission to resume
party contacts with the CCP. He returned to Malaya in September 1932 but was expelled from the
MCP for making political blunders. 18
Against the background of the Shanghai networks of communications discussed above, it would
appear from the letters of Shieng and Wang that:
(1) The MCP did not have direct connections with the FEB. The MCP had to rely on the
CCP to communicate with the latter. Funds and instructions were likewise to be
handed through the CCP. But the connections between the FEB and the CCP were
not smooth either. Thus, MCP representatives, unable to receive funds, lived in
extreme poverty.
(2) Even one of the established members of the FEB, Huang Moh Hang (Wong), could
not smoothly communicate with the FEB.
(3) As Ho Chi Minh occasionally lived in Shanghai and sent letters under various
pseudonyms to the FEB, there was a slim possibility that Ho was “Wang Yung Hai”.
But as he needed an introduction to the FEB and said he was returning to Malaya,
Wang might not have been Ho after all.
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