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A Warning to China

By HUGH DEANE

While the U.S.S.R.'s prime molive, in signing a neutrality pact with Jupan was to strengthen her position In Europe, the significance of the puct can be fully appreciated only in the light of Asiatic polllies, Rusaka's decision to secure an understanding with China's enemy was partly a re- sult of the recent political develop- nients within Chinu.

The pact is retribution. It is the Soviet answer to the Kuomintang's anti-Communist policy, which Chlong Kai-shick made explicit in his final to the People's Political Council in Chungking early in Mareli, The breakdown of the modus vivendi between the Kuomintang and

the Chinese Communists, the attack on the New Fourth Army early In January and the

and the subsequent arrest of Communists and of advocates of Kuomintang-Communist co-operation] perfurge destroyed the basis of Rus- sian ald and Russian friendship.

Press Attacks

the attacks on the Chinese Com- munist Party, The Chinese Com- This article, written for munists interpret the suppression of the "Telegraph" by the cor- Communist and other non-Kuomin→ respondent of the "Christian ng groups as preparation for capitu. lution. An official Communist state- Science Monitor," gives a ment on January 20 predicted that new slant on the much- the Kuomintang

Sho

would begin to published controversy be manoeuvre for peace with Japan. tween the Kuomintang and that now China is fairly closely

The view of many Communiats is tled the Chinese Communist Party, whose New Fourth Britain should be defented, or should to Britain and Amerien, but that if Army was recently suppress- suffer further defeats, the Kuomin- ed by Central Government tang would lose no time in securing troops for "disobedience," the best terms it could from the Mr Deane has been in Japanese. The attack on the New

Fourth Army in central

they China, Chungking and various parts say, was groundwork for this eventu- of the China war frontality: for as long as the New Fourth parts of the Yangtse valley,

during the past 18 month would be impossible. In

and is now en route home to America.

the New Fourth, the Kuo- mintang attempted to remove 九 barrier between Ilself and the Japanese.

Fearing the growing Communist pao" and other Chungking papers Japanese pact on China is not yet the Sau Tang Pao," the "To Kung The full effect of the Soviet- strength in north and central China, held the opinion that Russin was clear. The pact, however, does not large parts of which have come under the aegis of the Eighth Route and bound to China by ties of self-prohibit further Soviet aid to China. New Fourth Armies, and facing in interest, and that the amashing of

of it may be interpreted as a its own areas a real economic crisis, the New Fourth's "rovolt" would not China, an implleit declaration that as a warning to the Kuomintang. felt itself obliged to entail a decrease in Soviet old. The the U.S.S.R. Is unwilling to dispatch move against the Communists. Soviet-Japanese part indicates that arms and munitions to be used to

Tie

Chinese Communists have Chinese theorists analysed the situ-fight the Chinese Communist armies. been repeatedly attacked in the

tion Incorrectly,

Should the Kuomintang revise its and are now generally referred to as

Slap At China

anti-Communist

the ilie Treacherous Party."

polley Kuomin The U.S.S.R. has taken a slap at leaves the U.S.S.R. entirely free to pact tang- writers like to say that the China for reasons more pressing than continue giving aid. Japanese are only lice on the body

press,

of Chinn, while Communism is a dis- case of the heart.

The Kuomintang's attempt to cure China of her heart troublé has dis-{ Integrated Chinese unity, and is part- ly responsible for Russia's rapproche- ment with Japan.

Undeclared Civil War

The liquidation of 10,000 men of the New Fourth in Jonuery marked the beginning of an undeclared elvil

war. Central Government troops! under Tang En-po and other generals have moved against the main forces of the New Fourth Army north of the Yangtse, comprising about 90,000 men. and

In

tashes have occurred,

Communist

ones may be expected.

and Kansu, furthermore,

the Central Government has concen- trated 200,000 troops around the Shensi-Konsu-Ninghala Region, as Chlang Kai-shek himself admitted in his speech to the

Political Counell.

flight of Ho Ying-chin, Minis- ter of War, to Sinn last week for a

milltary conference makes the Com- munist leaders think that the Central Government is contemplating an at- tack on the Border Region

In Kuomintang areas, hundreds of Communists and adherents of other non-Kuorhintang groups have been arrested. Others have had to flee, Scores of bookshops have been closed down, particularly those of the Life Book Company, which is the publishi Ing

of the National Salvation orgun Association. Perlodicals have been -suppressed--such-es "Mass-Resist- ance," which was edited by Chou Tao-feng, one of the seven National! Salvation leaders, Chou is now in

Hongkong.

Cleavage

The widening of the cleavage be- tween left and right caused Russia to reconsider her polley toward China.. Many Kuomintang leaders belleved. that a "positive" polley towards the Chinese Communists would have no effect un Sino-Soviet relations. After the New Fourth Army Incident

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