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Shanghai. In general, communications between <strong>the</strong> FEB and <strong>the</strong> lead<strong>in</strong>g circles of<br />
<strong>the</strong> CCP <strong>in</strong> Shanghai were comparatively smooth but those between <strong>the</strong> FEB and<br />
CCP’s various organizations <strong>in</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r places did not p<strong>as</strong>s e<strong>as</strong>ily <strong>the</strong>n.<br />
When he stayed <strong>in</strong> Hong Kong, Ho Chi M<strong>in</strong>h sent mail to <strong>the</strong> FEB <strong>in</strong> Shanghai. Ho<br />
used such pseudonyms <strong>as</strong> L.M. Vuong and Wang Shan-yi. 16<br />
With regard to Ho Chi M<strong>in</strong>h’s letters, Kurihara h<strong>as</strong> also written that between 1930 and 1931,<br />
ma<strong>in</strong>ly b<strong>as</strong>ed <strong>in</strong> Hong Kong, Nguyen (Ho) wrote letters to <strong>the</strong> ES us<strong>in</strong>g different pseudonyms.<br />
Once Ho <strong>in</strong>tended to use <strong>the</strong> name of L. M. Wang. 17<br />
From C. F. Yong’s account, Fu Hung-chi (Fu Hung Chu), a Ha<strong>in</strong>anese leader who w<strong>as</strong> <strong>the</strong>n<br />
Chairman of <strong>the</strong> <strong>Malayan</strong> General Seamen’s Union, w<strong>as</strong> promoted to chief of <strong>the</strong> MCP <strong>in</strong> June<br />
1931. Fu w<strong>as</strong> reported to have received some political tra<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> Moscow before obta<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g those<br />
appo<strong>in</strong>tments. He w<strong>as</strong> dispatched to Shanghai <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> latter part of 1931 on a mission to resume<br />
party contacts with <strong>the</strong> CCP. He returned to Malaya <strong>in</strong> September 1932 but w<strong>as</strong> expelled from <strong>the</strong><br />
MCP for mak<strong>in</strong>g political blunders. 18<br />
Aga<strong>in</strong>st <strong>the</strong> background of <strong>the</strong> Shanghai networks of communications discussed above, it would<br />
appear from <strong>the</strong> letters of Shieng and Wang that:<br />
(1) <strong>The</strong> MCP did not have direct connections with <strong>the</strong> FEB. <strong>The</strong> MCP had to rely on <strong>the</strong><br />
CCP to communicate with <strong>the</strong> latter. Funds and <strong>in</strong>structions were likewise to be<br />
handed through <strong>the</strong> CCP. But <strong>the</strong> connections between <strong>the</strong> FEB and <strong>the</strong> CCP were<br />
not smooth ei<strong>the</strong>r. Thus, MCP representatives, unable to receive funds, lived <strong>in</strong><br />
extreme poverty.<br />
(2) Even one of <strong>the</strong> established members of <strong>the</strong> FEB, Huang Moh Hang (Wong), could<br />
not smoothly communicate with <strong>the</strong> FEB.<br />
(3) As Ho Chi M<strong>in</strong>h occ<strong>as</strong>ionally lived <strong>in</strong> Shanghai and sent letters under various<br />
pseudonyms to <strong>the</strong> FEB, <strong>the</strong>re w<strong>as</strong> a slim possibility that Ho w<strong>as</strong> “Wang Yung Hai”.<br />
But <strong>as</strong> he needed an <strong>in</strong>troduction to <strong>the</strong> FEB and said he w<strong>as</strong> return<strong>in</strong>g to Malaya,<br />
Wang might not have been Ho after all.<br />
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