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|KUOMINTANG AND COMMUNISTS.
DARK
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MEDIEVAL TORTURES PRACTISED BY COMMUNISTS.
FOREIGN CEMETERY DESECRATED,
KIUKIANO, April 20th. The expected attack by farmers on the local extremists did not raaterialize, writes the N.-C. Daily News correspondent. The farmers had no firearms and feared the soldiers might turn against them, so they decided discretion was the better part of valour. The extrem- ists have continued to scize people in the streets, to tie them up and parade them around. Sevors! moderates have been strung up by one ankle, upside down, and others have been tortured by having their faces beaten with sticks so that
mediæval barbárities.
There has been some reaction during the past few daya. In one lantern procession, when the coolies shouted, "Down with Chiang Kai Shek," soldiers intervened, arrested several and beat them. The news that Chiang Kai Shek's 1st Army may be on the way to this province also has had a sobering effect.
Amongst so much that is unsatis- factory, it is good to be able to report that the strike of shipping companies' coolice has been settled
PURIFICATION OF
· KUOMINTANG.
STATEMENT BY SHANGHAI BRANCH
COMMUNISTS AND OTHERS TO BE DRIVEN OUT.
CHANG TSO. LIN'S
POLICY.
PLAYING OFF JAPAN AGAINST RUSSIA.
·REFUGEES FLOCKING TO
SAFETY.
MURDEN, April 10th.
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We have received the following ity that the. Japanese are doubling document trititig the purge the Manchurian garrison, for fear on the same terms as were, offered which the Kuomintang propose to of serious eventualities, and in on Christmas Day. They will get apply to the party, from the Shang- Japanese circles there are ominous no pay for the period of the strike, bai branch of the Kuomintang, says discussions of dark times ahead. which lasted three and a halfast Friday's North-China Daily The impression amongst Japanese months. Steamers now are busy loading the accumulation of export cargo in the halks and godowns and it is only too evident that the coolies are delighted to be back at work again 'with full stomachs.
It is stated on very good author.
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Shell is general that Marshal Chang Tso | Star Ferrios Lin is deliberately seeking to force
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To understand clearly the objects of the movement for the purifica tion of the Kuomintang Party, it is The Marshal has always becu̟note- necessary to know first the actual worthy for his astute political and Cemetery Desecrated.
conditions of the present time. diplomatic policies, the Japanese It was learned with deep regret We have not yet accomplished the having had samples. The Japanese their noses and teeth are broken that the foreign cemetery, which aims of the Revolution. We are in Manchuria are highly nervous The Left Wing at Hankow have lies two miles below Kiukiang on Daly at the beginning of the task; these days. appointed 1 new magistrate, a the river bank, had been desecrated and, while victory is already in Conimanist, who encourages there by soldiers of the National Govern- eight, it is of the utmost import ment. An inspection has revealed ance at this juncture to carry on that many of the tombstonen have the Revolution to a successful end. been pushed over and broken and We must stand together and face some of the more valuable stones the common cause with a united of ourble have been stolen and wind. The slightest neglect on our carried away. Amongst the dam part will not only defeat the Recommodation, wealthy Chinese from aged stones are some on which the volution, but will also make it im Teingtao baving been first in the Orientals.
Tientsin, Peking, Chefoo and names can still be read. The de possible to attain the objects of field and secured the best of the secration of graves is an unpardon.liberty and equality for the Chinese bones. Then, too, there is able offence in any country.
galaxy of ex-Presidenta, generals and politicians with their body. China, where the cult-of ancestor Unscrupulous and Destructive guards and secretaries in Dairen In the Concession, a state of con- worship has flourished for a thou
Therefore, all members of the It is once again the case of people fusion continues. Mr. Chao, direc-sund years and more, it is not only party must know the gravity of the concessions in times of stress who think nothing of rushing for tor of the Bureau, bas leased the an unpardonable offense but also their responsibility. At this critical though in times of peace they fmd rooms recently occupied by the unforgiveable insult.
nument, the undesirable elements it convenient to talk much about sovereign rights and territorial agent of Messra. Andersen, Meyer To Kiukiang, the truth about are unscrupulously and untiringly integrity. & Co. The rooms were leased fully Nanking is beginning to arrive. We doing the work of destruction, and hear of one authentic case where if we do not check it in an effec- furnished. Mesars. Andersen &
a foreigner was bound with ropes, Meyer managed a large cotton mill while his wife was ravished before here and the mill hands felt they had a grievance because they had Women and our dead to remain failure of the Revolution. With this arrest undesirables.and it is being Der A Wing....................... nom.
the bait to prove how worthless are in view, wo adopt the following for crazy boasts 1
Looting In Concession.
not received a full six months' pay when the mill was closed, so they came to the Concession and looted the furniture from the flat whilst Mr. Chao looked on, powerless to prove it. Kiukiang was the second Concession to be returned to the National Government and it toght have been expected that the
In nation,
tive manner, it will not only mean his eyes. How much longer aro our the fall of the Party but also the
Guarding The Borders,
In the interval, the Manchurian
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authorities are drafting stringent regulations concerning passports, Constructions visas, etc., in an effort to trace and Dairy hinted that very shortly there will
town.
Farme
H.K. Electrica......1614 buy. It is a matter of common know. the purification of the Party. First, e aystem of examining people Mazao Electrics....36 buy. lodge amongst the Chinese at Kiu purgo the Party of the Coming across from the Japanese H.K. Bop
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kiang that the man who organized the Nanking outrages is the same who organized the looting of the Kiukiang Concession. He is the chief of the Political Bureau of the
6th National Army. The Comman Government would make some at- der-in-Chief of the 6th National tempt at a brave show hefore the Anny also could have prevented the Your looting of the Kiukiang Concession world of what it could do. readers will have seen a description by his troops if he wished. He was of the disgusting slate into which in Kiukiang at the time, but he the Concession has been allowed to condoned the deed and allowed the fall in the last account sent you, and guilty to go unpunished. With their now we have the spectacle of the appetites whetted at Kiukiang, his director of the Concession, appoint- ate troops perpetrated the Nan- ed by the proud Government, look king horrors. He was the chief and ing on in impotense while a crowd on his head also must rest the
blame. of 30 coolies loot his residence.
monists, and secondly to purge the Party of the opportunists and other undesirable elemente.
Dr. Sun Yat Sen admitted mem- notably the Rede, are moving into It will be remembered that when search. Many Russian families. hers of the Communist Party into the Kuomintang, he WEE quite
aware of the fact that Communism was not it for China. But as the Communist Party were ready to give up their communistic belief, and willing to be directed by the Kuomintang
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Although the Soviet has intimated its intention to leave all the con- sular officials in China as they are, hinted that it would be a good thing the Manchurian authorities have for Moscow to withdraw these folk also.. The idea seems to be that there would be nothing to prevent order to co-operate on from where the embassy left off. the consular officials from carrying in the work of the Revolution, it There can be no question but that was only natural that they should Marshal Chang and his colleagues Or be admitted into the Party. But are keeping up a very strong policy since the beginning of the Norther
THE PERFECT SOVIET IN along the railway, until with the Expedition, while members of the against the Reds and, now that the Kuomintang have been labouring have the best of the argument with
Northerners аге advent of the troops from Canton faithfully either on the field of the Southerners, this policy is not commencing to CHINA.
it had an opportunity of coming battle or elsewhere, and while the into full flower. Everything is done by groups of 10's along the militarists of the country have been likely to undergo a change. Forth
China Daily News. line, and the railwaymen buy coal adually eliminated, from their Bolshevik comrades at Pinghstang for the running of the
RAILWAY DISASTERS: MERCHANTS RUINED.
CONDITIONS BETWEEN CHANGSHA AND MANKOW.
locomotivea,
A Disastrous Experiment,
the Com-
munista, taking advantage of our cities as their centres for propa- success, have seized important ganda and usurped the power of the Party. Our military successes
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SCOUTS' ESSAY COM- PETITION.
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The fact that the mines are still are being utilized by them to in- working and the railway still run-flame the undesirable sections of WON BY MEMBER OF CHINESE
ing might be considered prima the populace to undermine our for- A resident who knows intimately facie evidence that there is nothing ward move and to create disturb- the country between Changsha and materially wrong with management ances in the rear. Hankow describes the condition of on Soviet principles-except so far
Entries for the Essay Competition Opportuniets And Others. Sovietism which prevails there at as the unfortunate shareholders and
(the subject being the present day and which the those holding the mortgage are con bers who
Apart from the Communistic mem-
"Honour") ON SHANGHAI,- were very few which was disap Communists hope to spread to cerned. Unfortunately this is any there
to be condemned, pointing, says The Silver Wolf, places beyond. It is probably three thing but the case, for the way and other undesirable elements in Bears since the first glimmerings of things are going, with all foreign the Party. It is they who shame who receives 85, and 85 also goes
also the opportunists the local Scouts Magazine. The prize a vt6, 89.days' sight...}` nom. the Soviet doctrine illumined that and other expert supervision lack fully steal the name of the Party to the Funds of the 20th Troop of was awarded to Scout Yip Fu To area, and this occurred at the ing, is diansterous.
for their selfish gains, and it is which he is a member. A transla Pinghsiang, mines. These are own- Within a few days recently no also they who falsely use the power tion of the Essay sent in by Yip ed by the Hanyehping Corpora fower than three trains were de- of the party for their personal ac Fu To is as follows:- tion, but since the workers com- railed on the railway, and to get tivities and aggrandisement. Theirs menced Soviets of their own, at is them back and to put such sections
"Sincerity had any profit from the venture or damaged by their derailment cost any control over it. Pinghsiang thousands of dollars, all of which is important to the southern could have been saved had expert branch of the Peking-Hankow Rail-control seep to the condition of the way. From Wuchang a line of the line and put to rights the defects railway runs south to Changsha, which had developed. and then carries on es far as Ping- hsiang. Naturally, therefore, the collieries at Pinghsiang supply the coal for this section of the line,
A Ready Conquest.
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very unlikely that the owners have of the line in order as, had been is a crime no less serious than that | Confucius says "A man without Bas Buvas, per os.
of the Communists.
For the welfare of the Revolution as well as that of the Kuomintang, wo are forced to adopt this strong measure to purge the Party of all
the undesirable elements,
Truthfulness." Truth knows not what will become of him,"
A man can only maintain his reputation in Society by being sincere, as it is obvious that if you break faith with others they will not trust you, which "amounts to injuring yourself. Practice,"
rune an old Insincerity if not checked will be saying, "becomes second nature," coule a fixed habit, and will be a danger to those who indulge in it.
Once a boy was fishing at a pond without success and to amuse him-
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It should not, however, be re Barded as surprising that it is pos- sible, with the aid of a number of When the Southern advance took experienced foremen, for these place- Whampoa Cadete political, -Communistic workers to continue not military entered the arel running the railway. Lines such as south of Wuchang and proceeded As elsewhere the Soviet agents these have been constructed with a to educate the people in Bolshevism seem to have conood ved that among view to life and stability, and it is Temples and the houses of the miners they would have a good field | a mistake to imagine that they can wealthy were used as Kuomin- for their operations, and accord go to pieces as quickly as many peo- tang Clubs-such was the title self he cried out for help and then ingly in the firet place they opened ple have suggested. It is, however, given to mesta of Bolshevism. The laughett at people who came to his work among the 4,000 men of the unsafe to travel upon them after *principles
Another time he was of Sun Yat Sen assistance. Pinghsiang mines. Cells of 10 men they have been in such cofitrol as were abbreviated, and
children walking along the edge of the pond ench, with a leader froin amongst we have just described, and the wore daily taught that there is no and was so pleased with the sight the number, were selected, and the moet serious
our wovidenta will be a dalty and that there is no such of the fishes playing with one an- workinen proceeded to take over
thing es wrong. The. Kuomin- other that he did not look where the colliery Presumably there ware
tang Clubs" were simply schools ho was going and fell into the & sufficient number of men who
for Bolshevism. As a result of all water. He cried out for help but From Pingbainng along the rail- this teaching there is not a mer people thought he was fooling again joined these Soviete with enough knowledge to carry on the work of way to Wachang, thence to Hanków chant in Changahs to-day who is and took no notice, so he 好包雎
now for perhaps 90 miles not ruined. getting coal without any serious
drowned and death was the result this disasters, for all expert supervision north
Sovietization has Our informant states that posters of not being truthful. spread: Already it has resulted in have been soon urging the com was done away with.
The first Scout Law is to be the railway paying $18 or 818 a ton munization of women, although so truthful. From the mines the Soviet prin for coal instead of the 86 or 87 far no attempt has been made to straight and maintains their honour. This keeps the boys ciple spread to the branch of the which formerly was the case thanks interfere with the carriage customs Peking-Hankow Railway Fanning to the proximity of the mines.
By keeping true one can face to Pinghsiang. The same Boviet
of the people.-North China Daily | God and man because there in no- organization gradually spread
(Continued on neat Column).
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constant-Texture:
The Spread of Communista.
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