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TWELVE MONTHS AGO AND NOW.
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HOW BORODIN AND THE COMMUNISTS HAVE WRECKED THE KUOMINTANG.
CAN IT RECOVER ITS OLD HOPES?
Just a year ago, full of enthusiasm for a great cause, I visited Canton to find a real Government in China, writes Mr. George E. Sokolsky in the North China Daily News. At that time, those who called them- selves a Nationalist Government were, as a matter of fact, govern- ing a small arca consisting of moet of the province of Kwangtung, a bit of the Fukien-Kwangtung border, & strip of the Kiangai Kwangtung border and a hinter land in the ungovernable province of Kwangsi. They were doing very well, remarkably well at this job not of course, by the western stan dards of governmental efficiency, but in coraparison with other poli- tical agencies in China. I arrived in Canton at the moment of in- tensest optimism there. Men were working hard 意 their jobs.
The municipal organization was Bourishing under Dr. 0. C. W
the Kuomintang. It made the Nationalist Government, a Moscow tool. For as the Government be came more involved in the fright- ful expensiveness of the war, the more they required Moscow's assist- ance. And as Moscow gained in strength, they drove from the Gov erniment every person associated with Dr. Sun Yat Sen, except his immediate family.
Whe
The success of the war wa RD inevitability from the commence- ment. For at the outset, the North was до hopelessly inert divided that no
and
shown in Hunas.
resistance
Marshal Sun Chuan Fang, who well deserves his subsequent defeat by treachery, pinyed a childish game of attempt- ing to outwit Canton into defent- he might become his former chief's ing Marshal Wu Pei Fu so that
the Itussian-led forces of General successor. Against such trickery,
Mr. T. V. Boong had at last broughtful, united front. So forceful was Chiang Kai Shek showed a power- his financial organization into this something like unification, so that,
spirit of
nationalism, so keen when funds were collected they foreigners as well as Chinese be was this urge of rejuvenation, that "were--received" by the Government
came ardent believers in the cause and were recorded in Governmental of these armies. Echoes of this accounts which were to a larger extent public than anywhere else in China In my articles, I was able to publish data from these accounts.
Chiang The Lonely Man, As to the Kuomintang, it was in The loneliest man at that moment excellent shape. General Chiang was undoubtedly General Chiang Kai Shek had joined with the Kuo Kai Bhek. As his armien
intang leaders to oust the Com- victory after victory, he realized munist Party. There was much that his influence was waning. face-saving at the time: the fast When his armies conquered Hupeh, of a split was denied, as usual; The discovered that the Communists was requested not to denounco had raised a Tang Seng Chi to Borodin personally as they all ad- divide with him the glories of suc- mired him. I attended a farewell cess. When he sought to establish ball for the Russian advisors at the
a Government in Hugeh, he found Nanti Club, a polite farewell, but that his choice for the administra not on revoir. There was hope that tor, Teng Jan Dah, was serving his the imbroglio with Hong Kong enemy, the Communists. When he might shortly be settled amicably rode from Nanchang to Kiukiang, and that when that settlement had he saw everywhere banners to the taken place. a tremendous economic Revolutionary Tutor," while he boom would make Kwangtung, as was ignored, he the conqueroring
it are still heard in the United States and Great Britain.
won
it really should be, the richest, hero. Borodin, the conqueror, was
marks the spilt and the defeat of Nationalism,
nat the greatest province in China.--the-man-of-the-hour. That moment And these things, at the moment, seemned in the bounds of practicabi- lity, for Kwangtung was produc The removal of the Government ing nearly six millions a month in to Wu-Han, the destruction of cona-. taxation. Every day at tifin at merce, the continuation of the the Nanti Club, I listened to plans struggle with Great Britain, the and schemos, all of which any pursuance of a childish foreign banker or engineer would have appolicy of winning victories by plau proved and could have been carried sible propaganda, the stoppage of through with the necessary effort. any activities beneficial to the Chinese people, the shambling of Hunan and Hapeh, the destruction of the final system of Hunan, Hupch and Kiangsi-these were the accomplishments of the Communist Government of Wu-Han, and for these the Kuomintang must assume although Con responsibility because they dared munists disliked the odium of not tell the truth; they dared not treachery to those who had given admit their defeat by the Com- them money and arms and mani-munists,
The Plaket Menace.
But there was the proletariat, the armed pickets who had been used by the Canton Government to fight Hong Kong and who now were unwilling to be discarded. There were the Left Wing Kuomintang minority. who
tions
advisors and
to pacify The Kuomintang's Nadir, Kwangtung Province and to defeat
And now the Kuomintang ate their chemies. There was the per- faced with frightful facts and sonality of Borodin, travelling in heartbreaking failures. They have the territory of Marshal Feng Yu won a military victory and have Hsiang in the company, if I re suffered a political defeat. The member rightly, of Mr. George military victory has thus far only Hsu Chien, Christian turned Com-created a new group of Tuchuus. munist, and Mr. Eugene Chen, re-
The political defeat has thrown the leased from imprisonment by Mar- party back to the period before shal Feng Yu Hsiang. Constantly 1923. They have to reorganize, to whon I heard of the wonderful purify their ranks, to revaluate prenta which were to happen in their principles and to regain their May at the Plenary Session of the reputation. They have brought to Central Executive Committee did this country in their political de- I ask my friends, what the other feat the largest foreign forces aido was going to do-and con-ever to come here, he British stantly did I receive assurances troops alone being more numerous that as long as the military were than the total foreign forces in the willing to subordinate themselves Boxer Expedition. From a party to the Kuomintang, so long would which in one year raised one hun- the Communiste remain helpless.dred millions in a few provinces, Then arose the question as to the they are now faced with the fact of personality of General Chiang Kai almost
revenus. Instead of be Shek, his sincerity, his motives, his ing able to consolidate their poai- ability.
tion south of the Yangtze, they have to send armies to fight against their own men in Hankow. In- At that moment, there was
bringing together all the stead of already a startling difference of opinion between that group which followers of Sun Yat Sen into I like to call the administrators in
Ohlang's Military Aims,
know it.
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