Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-07
CH|ANC'S REGIME
IN CHINA WOBBL|NC
lead OF Right Wing Nation
aIists Must Decide Soon
Oh Alliance.
ny VINCENT SHEEAN.

nANKO\N. August c.-The Right
Wing Nationalist government" at
Marking was cdcated by the decision
If Chang Kai-SSell commander-in-
chief of the Cantonese and HunanCsc
armies. not 70 obey the orders Of the
central executive committee ut Han
kOW.
When the Marking government was
proclaimed April Is it declared itself
against Bolahcvism. opposed to Mix
hail B0rdin, and opposed to the labor
ANA peasant policy Of the HankoW
Nationalist government.
Chang had difficulty getting a gov
eminent together, however, rs few
civilian officials belonging TO the Ma
tionalist party were willing TO serve
under a military chief. That has
lepn all along the drawback to his
success. and constitutes the chief weak
ness of his movement.
Although he is operating according
to the traditions of all the Chinese
War-lords, with forced loans and die
tatorial powers TO maintain him, ne
still keeps ND the formulas and catch
words Of the Nationalist movement
"anti!mperialism and "anu'mllltar-
ism" TO these he has added "anti-boI-
shevism.
Confused on Aims.
The confusion he has created in the
EQUATION by the ircompatlbllty OF
his aims and his methods IS only
caua1ed by the confusion of his own
mind. for il is difficult to get out OF
him exactly what he believes or wants
There has always been moderate
element in the Nationalist party when
would have been willing to organize
the PARTY over again without Com
munlst clements. Chang ruined the
chances for such reorganiZed Ma
tionalist party by taking the law lnto
his own hands, 'Summoning the
moderate leaders to Marking to help
him, and 'proclaiming" a government
of his own without party authority.
Naturally most of the Nationalist
leaders, even those who were most
distrustful of Communist aims and
most fearful of the results which
might follow a mass revolutionary
upheaval, refused to obey Changes
orders. Not single .kuomintang
leader in good standing Joined Chiang's
Marking government. He was forced
To make up his government out OF
eX-kuomintang members who had
been expelled for infringements of
party discipline.
WI Is Prominent Ally.
The most prominent of these is c.
e. Wa, now minister of foreign af-
fairs in the Marking government. WI
is son of the famous WI Ting fang,
who helped Sun Yat-sen found the
Chinese republic.
WI desires to settle the Marking
incident with the foreign powers, as
IA prelude to obtaining foreign sup
port; but Chang Is as anti-Japanese
and anti-British as he is anti-every-
thing else.
He is driving up the railway to
'eking in the hope of reaching there
before his enemies, the radicals of
the Nationalist movement, occupy the
capital. In the meantime all the re-
dictionary forces in China, from the
British to Marshal Chang Tso-Lin,
have offered their friendship to Chang
1Iai-Shek and the Marking govern
ment.
It is difficult to see how he can re-
fuse these alliances. and the pressure
OF his own government" is in that
direction.
Must Decide Soon.
His position is anomalous and his
government is shaky, but before the
summer is up he will have to decide
n one way or in the other, either
FOR his natural counter-revolutionary
allies. or for that Hankow revolu-
tionary government he so f1amboy.
antly denounced last April.
Meanwhile he has disarmed the
labor and peasant unions throughout
the territories he controls, and the to-
tai deaths from these conflicts in
Shanghai. Marking and down the
coast to Canton are said to have been
well above a thousand. This fact
would make it almost impossible for
the Hankow government ever to ac-
cept him back into the fold, for to do
so would be to insult the labor unions
which form Hankow's support.
Chang logically, therefore, will be
forced to join the other counter-revo-
iutionary forces in China, or be elm
mated completely. The pretense at
'Nationalism" cannot be kept up
much longer, because there is not &C.
tually any difference between his
aims and those Of every other war
lord in China.
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