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Communism or Nationalism! That is the final issue to which China has been brought by twenty two years of experiment and disin- tegration. It is a question of far greater importance than Manchuria for China and for all Asin.

By

BY MOSCOW

O.M. GREEN

(Late Editor of the

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over a fifth of their produce and One on not open any China news- keep the reet The Communists paper without finding some account have their own central bank and of Communist plots and exploits, | their own paper money. or some article testifying to the anxiety which Communism is giv ing to all thinking men. The West generally has no conception of the magnitude of the menace.

closed and diplomatic relations with Masenw, broken off.

The Chinese Communists took rel fuge in the mountains of South Kiangsi, but the renewed dissen. sions

Nationalists, among the desolating civil wars of 1920-30, Yangtzze floods of 1931, and Sino Japanese conflict gave them a chanen by which they were swift to profit,

Although the vast majority of

There is now, lying across" POU- the insurgenis are certainly mere bandits, the Reds are remarkably thorn Kiangai and Fukien, a solid clover in attaching them and direct Red State roughly 400 miles long ing their movements. For example, by 150 wide, and including, the im Since last July, General Chian Lien Chung, who nearly portant towns of Kian, Tungku Kai Shek has been in the field enptured Amoy last April (when Butien and Jaichin, with a Central against

the Communists, with British and American men-of-war Executivo Committee, seven Minis». e00,000 men, leading the campaign were sent to take buff the foreign retries or Commissions, and an el- north of the Yangtaze, where two sidents) inscribed on his banners aborate code of laws and regula“ | Red armies are operating, one in The Protecting Party for Saving tions. * Hupeh, one in South Henan and Anhui. South of the Yangtze, General Ho Ying Chin, Minister of War, is trying to drive at the Communist stronghold in South Kiangst and Fukien, in co-opera tion with the famous 19th Army (which did all the fighting at Shanghai last February) painfully advancing from the coast to Foo chow.

This in the fourth campaign Communist stronghold in Couth scored but successes have been there is no finality. Moving armies across the roadless face of China in slow and toilsome: the Reds have abundant mountain strongholds whither they cannot be followed; and at all times they can hide their arme and pass us simple peasants. Three months ago it was reported that General Chiang had practical Is bottled up the Red Army in Huneh, but final success" somehow failed. Twice in the past summer they have got within ninety miles of Nanking. In a pitched battle the Government troops would win Bat the Reds can never be pinned down to that.

the Country." Other organisations This is the eare; but its organisa- style themselves White Lilies,"

Big Swords," or by other of the tion has penetrated deeply into picturesque names that Chinese the best parts of Hunan, Hupeh, love, But almost invariably the Anhui, and continually overflows isto Kiangsu, Chekiang and brains at the back of the brigand

Kuangtung.. movements are Red.

Yet another ominous symptom is the virulence with which Com munism, previously confined to the smith, has spread north of the Yangtaze in the present year. In Honan its victims-killed or driven from their homer-are estimated at 3,000,000; this is probably no exaggeration. The numbers of vic- tims south of the Yangtaze during the past three years are unques tionably far higher. Even Peking. ance far removed from Red con- tamination, has had to organise a special force.

anti-Communist defence

Documents sized in Kiangsi a year ago gaye ́n minute description of the whole organisation of bran- the and cella for spreading Com- uniam iu prery part of China. Not the least of the danger is the growink sttraction of Communian for students and hungry politicians.

An area of 300,000 square miles at least is dominated by Reds. The fringe of their influence wavers under Government pressure, but, pushed in here, it swells out thore, and the loss is amall. When Sir John Hope Simpson was doing his on the great flood relief work Tanatsze last spring, sign-boards on the bank marked where the Cam munist power began, and he had to treat with it as with a separate State..

The flower of the Red Arurgi effectively armed troope-numbers probably not more than 140,000 north and south of the Yangtze but they are well-drilled, ardent and out of all proportion effective These are reserved for big emergen- eies.

The Red armies, however, am pos- sibly less dangerous than the steady sapping of the foundation of Chi. nese society by Red propaganda. In the big towns Communism has to Europe and America, called ined to ramp the Government troops.

not inade so much headway as in the country. The officials are reaselessly on the watch, and to he suspected of being a Communist is

a death warrant.

It was the late Dr. Sun Yat Sea, who, having failed in his appeals the Russians to help him. against the North in 1929 Sun was no Communist, but deluded himself in to thinking he could use the Rus sians for his own ends.

Next come the Flying Columns which rove about plundering and killing; then the Red Guarda, peasante armed with spears and swords, to prey on the rich. Lastly, the Women's Corps, specially train and seduce them to the Reds. So. well do they do their work that it je estimated that 29 per cent, of the Communist forces are rebel troons. Frequently the Government soldiers, months in arrears for their pas, desert, to the Reds on the field of battle, not merely raining the attack. but bringing to the Com- munists Fresh supplies of arms and munitions.

But China is built upon ber

Under the guidance of Borodin, passants, and the latter have suffer. Galens, and other political and ed as atrociously from mingovern- military teachers, the communists ment and civil war that they are completely captured the Nationalist movement and it was to a purely casily won over to the Reds, es Communist Guvernment bossed by

The Red methods and slogans are pecially is, wherever the latter ap- Moscow (and incidentally in open fear, they inmediately destroy all rebellion against the Government the usual ones-kill or drive out all in Peking, which we then recog. Governgient officials especially mem- title deeds and land marks and remised), that we committed the inbers of the Kuomintang, landow.

distribute the land among the pensanta.

credible blunder of surrendering ners Hankow in March, 1927; r

Chang Tso Lin's raid on the Rus

No fewer than 500 villages and country towns in Central China sian Embassy in the following are stated on good authority to month revealed the extent to which

thumb. The moderate Nationaliste

be now completely Sovietised, each Nationalism was under Moscow's a little: Incal government managing its own affairs (thus even in Com led by General Chiang Kai Shek munism does China cling to the revolted, the Russians were expell customs of 3,000 years), but read, and (after the Communist coup peneible to the Red Central Execu- at Canton in December, 1027) all tive Committee. The farmers pay banks and business houses were

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But wherever they consolidate their power they have started on real constructive work. Wiser than their prototypes in Russia, they spare the small shopkeeper and only redistribute the land to the peasant, but, so long as he pays his taxes, leave him in undisturbed enjoyment of it. This is their most dangerous move,

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