The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-09
GEN. Chang
SURRENDERS
HIS CAP|TAL
Mukden Falls Before
Mutinous Armies

SHANGHAI, CHINA, DeS. (.-Onan9
Tso-Iin, the so-caIled war lord Of
Manchuria," ruthless commander OF
the armies of northern China which
have repeatedly suppressed all efforts
of Chinese workers, students and peas
antry to free themselves from foreign
imperiaIst domination, is overthroWnI
by his own armies and his capital
city, Mukden, is within few hours
of capture by the mutineers.
Chang Tso-lin's vast power has coiF
Apsed, just as many another war
lords" power has collapsed like a
house Of cards, when the engines OF
war and those who run them4ths
rank and file of common soldiery-
was turned against him. .oa
Troops Refuse to Fight. $500
Chang Tso-lin relied for last stand
upon his son, Chang Hsueh-liang, to-
hold back the mutinous armies COM
manded by former officer of Changes,
Kuo Smuggling, at point one hundred
miles south of Mukden near the cities
of Chinchow and Kuopangtzu.
When General Kuo's troops ad-.
vanced to attack, however, the troops.
commanded by Chang Hseuh-liang re-
fused to fight their commanders I'M,
der young Chang, Generals Chang sFso-
hsiang and Wan Fu-lin fatty declin-
ing to order their troops into action
against their former comrades under
General Kuo. aSls"
The capture of Chinchow followed,
capture which sealed Changes fate,
altho young Chang tried desperately
to rally his routed troops at Hsinmin-
fu.
Chang Checks Out.
When Chang Tso-lin heard of the
defeat, he called his staff remaining
in Mukden to his headquarters, dis
tributed some $25O,OOO in cash pre-
sents to his officers and told them he
would surrender the Manchurian cap
ital.
Thus Chang Tso-lin passes from
power. What is to come is quite an
other matter. Rumors and reports,
of unconfirmed nature, say that Japan
is not so unhappy at Changes down
fall, and even that Japan had some
thing to do with it.
There is a report that the general
| leading the mutiny, Kuo Smuggling,
7 spent some time in Japan not long be-
fore the mutiny broke out. And there
is a rumor that the Japanese manifest
strange unconcern> at the passing of
Chang Tso-lin, strange considering
that they used him for years as their
principal tool in north China.
Whether they have merely changed
one hireling for another is uncertain.
But what is certain is that Chinese
soldiers are learning the lesson and
power of mutiny.
1t now happens that another mer-
cenary, who relied upon Changes son
maintaining his force against Kuo-
Smuggling, is in hard fix further
south. This person is the tuchun
(governor) of Chilli, Ii Ching-lin.
He refused General Feng Yu-hsiang
coming from the west, the right-of-way
thru Chilli to aid General Kuo. Now
that Kuo is victorious, young Chang
whipped and Feng's troops advancing,
the honorable governor of Chilli is
out on the end of long, cold limb.
Typical Chamber OF Commerce.
A typical example of the spirit of
the bourgeoisie is seen in the action
of the Mukden chamber of commerce.
Altho II had only twenty-four hours
previously sworn deep VOWS to stand
by Chang Tso-lin, when news arrived
of the capture, Of Chinchow and the
spread Of the mutiny to the troops
OF Chang's son, the chamber OF COM
merce met andDsent a telegram to the
advancing arnFG Of Kuo, welcoming
him TO the cityaas a "deliverer."
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