New Britain herald., 1927-07-06

ChlAng are now engaged IN their
drive into North China to end the
domination of the war-lords, and to
unity China under the Nationalist
government: the period of tutelage.
or the process Of education and Or
ganization.-when a great deal must
be done in teaching the masses Of
people the fundamental principles
that must underlie a modern nation
al government, and calling for a
very great extension of the present
very effective MASS Education
Movement" and the constitutional
or democratic, which is still in the
future, when the citizenry of China
shall in large numbers have learned
the principles and procedure Of
modern democratic government. and
shall be able to carry on a govern
ment not for the sake Of the govern
ing. but for the sake OF the govern
ed. One may justly say that the
Nationalist party has won the ap-
proval of all politically conscious
China,-even in the north where the
remaining war-lords are apparently
about to be driven out.
''The present military campaign is
an attempt to realize the first of
these undertakings. The only way
they seem to be able to deal with
the war-lords is by using military
force in order to remove the OBJ
stacles in the way of the progressive
program Of the party. Late in the
army started northward under the
leadership of its genius and now
generalissimo General Chang Kai
Shek. young man still under forty.
This army has as its nucleus men
trained by Chang himself; many
students have joined its ranks. 1t
ecountered little resistance during
the first few weeks, for it bore
with it strong popular appeal.
Later on, many divisions from the
armies Of northern leaders have de-
serted to its ranks. This is partial
ly due to the very successful system
Of propaganda established by the
army. Slogan companies proceed the
main troops and weaken opposition
by spreading such slogans as:
China for the Chinese; get rid Of the
foreign yoke: save China from our
own militarists. who sell our riches
to the foreigners: no man is too bad
not to have enough rice. and no
man is so good as to have too much.
when the army arrived in the
Yangtze valley. conflict between
Chinese and foreign interests be-
came inevitable. Six great cities
with total population OF approx
mately 100000, and numberless
other cities have passed from the
control of northern forces to the ma
tionalists within the last seven
months. Naturally commerce has
been effected, and industries and
communication have been interrupt
ed from time to time. In the United
States we have heard dire stories of
attacks on foreign concessions, or
impending massacres of foreigners,
and so on. There was the unex-
pected and unfortunate incident at
Marking, but taken all-in-all the
facts are quite unsensational. Here
are few of the facts, as accurately
as / have been able to gather them:
"Hankow, the seat of the nation
alist government since last Novem-
Der, is one of the supposed storm
centers, yet no foreigner has been
killed in Hankow. There have been
strikes and q steady effort to i'm
prove labor conditions. In the face
of difficulties caused by the closing
of foreign-owned industries. throw
ing large numbers of laborers out of
employment, and wages in Hankow
are said to have been raised from