The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-22
The Present Situation Of the kuOmintang
and the Wuhan Government

Following upon the plenary session
of the Kuomintang in March of this
year, democracy and the supreme
position of the party were re-intro-
duced in the Kuomintang and the
Wuhan (Hankow) government, which
had been for some time dependent
upon Chang Kai-shek. In place of
the dictatorship (Chiang Kai-shek
held all the five leading posts as
chairman of the party, Of the Poll
teal Bureau, of the Supreme War
Council, of the Organization Depart
ment and the Soldiers Department.,
the committee system has been in
troduced and the return of the popu-
lar leader, Wang Ching-wei, the stu
dent of Sun Yat-sen, was decided
upon.
Old Fossils Follow Chang.
With the detection of Chang Kai-
shex, of SO executive members, went
with Chang, of the IL members of
the Control Commission, went with
1 him, all of them being very old.
When Chang Kai-shek tried to call
an executive session Of the Kuomin-
tang in Marking on the 18th of April,
in order to dismiss the Wuhan Cen
trail Committee and the government
from the party, he was not able to
obtain the necessary quorom, so he
decided to act on his own together with
such people whom he had previous
ly in Canton arrested and dismissed
as counter-revolution elements
working together with the imperial
lists, as WI Chow-chu, WI Tiet-chen,
Sinkevu, etc, and form a new gov
eminent and new party in Marking.
The Wuhan government is COM
posed of the following persons: Chair
man of the government, Wang Ching
wei; his substitute, Tan Yen-kai; For
eign Minister, Chen Yu-yen; Justice
Minister, Hsu Chen; Finance Minis
ter, Sungzewen; Transport Minister,
Sun Fox. After the plenary session
in March, the following were added:
Agricultural Minister, Tang Ping
chan; Labor Minister, Su Chow-kln
and Minister for Education, Kuo
Ming-yu. In contradiction to all other
reports, all the ministers have re-
manned loyal to the government.
At the same time as Chang Kai-
shek's detection, the governor of the
exemplary province of Chansi, Yen
Chi-san attached himself to the
Wuhan government and subordinated
himself to the supreme commander of
the national-revolutionary troops in
China, Feng Yu-hsiang. The Wuhan
government now controls the follow
ing Chinese provinces: Wuhan, Hupe,
Kiangsi, Honan, Shansi, Shensi,
Kansu, Northwest Shuyan and
North Kwangtung. An area which
stretches from the south to the north
of China crossing both great rivers,
the Yangtse and the Hoangho. The
most important railway lines are also
in this district.
The Chinese Areas of War.
The advance of the expedition
against the north which was tenn
porarily held up by the negotiations
of Chang Kai-shek with Chang Tso-
lin and the detection of the former
from the Wuhan government, was re-
sumed on the 10Th of April of this
year. The plan was that the soldiers
Of the southern front under the COM
mand of Tang Sen-yi should advance
against Chang Tso-lin along the rail-
way line Hankow- Picking, and the
troops under the command Of Feng
Yu-hsiang should advance along the
Lunghai line The aims of the move
ment were: The unification of the
Feng army with the Wuhan troops,
the final destruction of the Chang
Tso-lin clique and the conquest OF
Hsuchow, the railway junction of the
Lunghai and Tientsin, Pukau railway
with view to destroying the forces
of Chang Tsung-chang. It was as
sumed that the forces of Chang Kai-
shek would dissolve of their own Volt
ton after the unification of the forces
of Feng and the Wuhan troops and
their joint victory over Chang Tso-lin,
for Chang Kai-shelS only has the first
army corps Of the national-revolution
airy troops which is scattered over a
long front from Swatou to Marking,
whilst the greater portion of his army
is composed Of deserters from the
armies of Sun Chuang-fang and WI
Pei-fu, troops which for years have
changed their masters according to
] the fortunes of battle. No action was