The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 13, 1927, Page 9

The New Situation in China After the ~ Treachery of the Generals to the Revolution HE Chinese generals, who gained new accession of strength through the revolutionary movement and were therefore able to prolong their life for a certain time, have now thrown aside their masks and are showing themselves for what they really are. Chiang Kai-shek was the first to desert the masses and to show his brutality; he was followed by Feng Yu Hsiang and\Tang Sen Dji. All three generals, who, even in the revolutionary camps, had carried on rivalry against each other, have joined férces in order te annihilate the Wuhan government. The reactionary generals as Chang Tso-lin and Co. have changed their colors somewhat and are like- wise endeavoring to act along with the three first- named generals. Behind the generals there stand the various reactionary political organizations as Lien Du Chi (Association for the Study of the Con-.. stitution). Jjau Tong Chi (Union of Traffic) etc. Apart from the mutual rivalry there no longer exists any difference between the activity of the old reactionary generals and those who have deserted the revolution. Chang Tso-lin says: “I am a Na- tionalist and stand for the abolition of the unequal treaties}, I acknowledge ‘the teachings of Sun Yat- Sen.” Feng Yu Hsiang, Tang Sen Dji and Chiang Kai-shek declare: “We are against the Reds and must annihilate the Communists.” Never since the setting up of the republic has there prevailed such agreement between all the generals of China as pre- vails today. Chang Tso-lin, at the end of June appointed him- self Generalissimo of the whole of the Chinese mili- tary forces. In spite of this he claims to be striving to collaborate with all the other generals in China. Is it possible for the generals to combine and create a united China? By no means.- For each one con- siders before everything else his own personal power. In addition to this, the generals subordinate to the chief generals, Chiang Kai-shel:, Feng Yu Hsiang, Tang Sen Dji, Chang Tso-lin, etc., are split up into various camps. Before very long every petty gen- eral will be setting up his own government in China. The uniting of China, which had made great. prog- ress since the autumn of last year under the flag of the Kuomintang, is today more remote than ever. Apart from the common threatening of the Wuhan government, very little seems to have resulted from the collaboration against the North and South agreed upon by Feng Yu Hsiang and Chiang Kai-shek at the Hsuschau Conference. On the contrary, the Ber- lin Lokalanzeiger again reports.a breach between these two. Féng Yu Hsiang even attempted to win over to his side one of Chiang Kai-shek’s generals on the Shantung front. The model governor of Shan- si, General Yen Shi Sen, after the Hsuschau confer- ence, has not only not continued his march against Peking, but, at the reqeust of Chang Tso-lin, has even accepted the role of mediator between the latter and Chiang Kai-shek and Feng Yu Hsiang. He is clever enough and- does not, like the other generals cherish plans of conquest beyond his powers. but only wants to consolidate his present position still n By TANG SHIN SHE —Sketch by Ellis. further. Nobody therefore can say with certainty whom Yen Shi. Sen will support or whom he will oppose. How does the matter stand with the division of the territories under the command of the generals? The. Chang. Tso-lin clique possesses Manchuria and provinces of Chili and Shantung,; Feng Yu Hsiang has occupied Shensi, Kansu and Honan, Chiang Kai- shek and his followers claim possession of Kiangsu, Anhwei; Chekiang, Fukien, Kwantung and Kwangsi. As regards Tang Sen Dji, it is assumed that he will appropriate Hunan and Hupeh. Yen Shi Sen rules Shansi and Suiyuan The generals of other provinces, as in Yunnan, Szechuan, Kuichow, etc., who claim to be followers of the Kuomintang or the Nanking government, are practically pursuing only their own ends. It is also possible that Wu Pei*Fu who, it is said, “has fled from Honan to Szechwan, will es- tablish a basis in the last named province. The disunity in the Chang Tso-lin clique is well- “Say Chief, Sacco and Vanzetti won’t eat!” “Well, Pll eat. I ain’t gonna give nobody a chance to call me a R ed!” © es * eadets. The fate of the Wuhan governme known. With Chiang Kai-shek it is still worse. Under him there is a Chekiang, a Fukien, a Kwan- tung, a Kwangsi and a Kuichow group. Between the Chekiang, the Fukien and the Kkantung groups there is already an open struggle. The Kwantung group wishes to form along with the Kwangsi group an independent government in Canton against Chiang Kaishek. The Fukien group wishes to expel the Chekiang group from Fukien. Feng Yu Hsiang is now being openly opposed by the second army in Shensi, and he is now trying to remove Commander Yu. Things are still worse in South Honan. The troops there who have gone over from Wu Pei Fu to the Wuhan government do not wish to remain under Feng Yu Hsiang’s regime. Matters are not much better with Tang Sen Diji. The Wuhan government, owing to the desertion of almost all the gerterals and the turning’ aside of a great portion of the left leaders from the agrarian revolution and the workingclass, is faced with liqui- dation. These left leaders are only demanding the simultaneous dissolution of the Nanking and Wuhan government and the formation of a new joint gov- ernment. The firm left leaders and the Communists recently wished to conclude a compromise with the deviating left leaders regarding the further existence of the Wuhan government. In the meantime the fighting spirit among the workers and peasants against the traitor Chiang Kai-shek is becoming con- tinually stronger. In Wuhan nobody would be al- lowed to suggest negotiations with Nanking. The masses have even compelled the Wuhan government to send a punitive expedition against Chiang Kai- shek. In addition to the iron fourth army corps, the Wuhan government possesses a division led by Ye Tchin and a division composed of peasants and nt depends upon whether it will abandon its policy of self- liquidation and arm the workers and peasants. If it continues to refuse to carry out the agrarian revo- lution, then its fate is sealed. The liquidation of the Wuhan government of course does not mean the liquidation of the Chinese revolution. In spite of the fact that the revolution- ary movement in Shanghai, Ningpo, Canton, Fukien, etc., is most ruthlessly suppressed, the workers are continuing the anti-imperialist and anti-feudal strug- gle. In spite of the most fearful white terror, many districts in the-provinces of Hunan, Kiangsi and Kkantung are still dominated by armed peasants. The millions of suppressed peasants, once awakened and driven along the path of revolution, will deter- minedly pursue their aim further and not allow themselves to be lulled to sleep again. The Chinese revolution has entered on a new stage. During the past period the broad masses were awakened and enlightened under co-operation with the bourgeoisie and the generals. They have now taken leave of the generals and the bourgeoisie, The broad masses, the workers and the city poor will themselves take up the armed fight against the foreign imperialists and the native Teudalists. By William