Evening star., 1927-04-24
FICTION AND
HUMOR
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Chang Kai-Shek and to his prime
minister, Eugene Chen.
The latter official is in many ways
the most picturesque and outstanding
of all the men of the opposition forces.
He would seem in particular to be a
lineal descendant of the persons who
invented the expression, ''Fe FL Fo
Fun. / smell the blood of an English
man." as his fiery denunciation or the
British Empire in general and or
things English is almost unexplain'
able otherwise.
He was born in the West Indies
under British rule. and was educated
in England, where he acquired the
marked oxford accent that Is ire
duently referred to. For a time he
was a solicitor in London, but made
several trips to the Far East, and
having once come under the influence
of Dr. Sun Vat Sen, in due time be-
came one of the most powerful lead
ers of his party.
During 1925 the present form of the
Kuomintang was created. with a Gen.
| trail Government of which Wang was
| the chairman in charge Of Finance
| War and Foreign Affairs.
There was also what was known as
a Central Executive Committee, and
! trail Government and divided into six
I bureaus that included Organization,
| Propaganda, Labor, Agrarian, Mer.
| chant, Young Men and Women. Each
| of the bureaus of the Central Govern
! ment had a committee Of its own, and
| there was also a Provincial Govern
ment which included a civil admins
| tration of Finance, Commerce, Educa-
| tion. Agriculture, War, Construction
| and Industry.
TT IS thus apparent that the adj
ministrative organization Of the
Nationalist party is a type quite
similar to that Of the Russian system.
Borodin became the supreme ad.
wiser and, Jf course. has tremendous
power, while Anikin acted as secre-
| tary and right-hand man to Borodin,
and under these two Russian powers
| is Garon, who became the adviser Of
| the Central Military and Political
| School. incidentally, the posts OF In
| spector of commerce, of the navy and
| of Aeronautics are all held by
| Russian, and it is under their
| guidance that the Cantonese have
been able to occupy all the area South
stars of the Russian are very much In
| the ascendant at the moment.
The army of the Cantonese is
at present composed of cadets who
have attended the "Chang Quang"
| Military School, who were in part
| transferred from various academies
near Canton. and who graduated In
| 1925. This group includes one cadet
| infantry regiment, one reserve cavalry
regiment and one of each battalion of
artillery, engineering and quartermas-
| ter. In addition there Is detach-
ment Of gendarmerie and signal corps.
and the whole staff and students
numbers ten thousand in this school.
After their graduation these cadets
ara distributed to the various armies
| to join the colors in active service.
| and these in turn number around
| 10000, who are now serving as COM
pany officers and junior officers OF the
| Sixth Army Corps, whose division
| commander is Wang Pei Ling. the
| former chief instructor at the acad-
emy. This division is usually called
| the Student Army" and is the flower
| of the organization.
| In addition to the army itself, there
is an administration department
| within the general headquarters
general and propaganda divisions.
| The adjutant general controls finance.
| secretariat, medical, exactive, trans.
| portation. The propaganda controls
editing, social, act, printing, investiga.
tion and states.
AS soon as the army occupies a dis
trict these branches commence opera.
tions at once, and by the most effec.
tive sort of propaganda. gain the con-
tidence of the people in that sector
| Force is fought with idealistic ideas,
and the method has worked very well
so far.
This type of organization is a com
plex one that applies down to the
brigades, regiments and battalions.
The staff is composed of young men
whose number varies as TO the size
of the group, of which the lowest are
in the char5e of the very Young and
ardent communists, who not only act
as propaganda scatterers. but join in
battles, if so required.
How much Feng is supported by
the Soviets is not yet clear, but ii
seems to be well known that the Rus
slams supplied China with 40 million
rubles every year "a ruble is about
equal to fifty cents, which roughly
makes this bonus about 20 million
dollars) and Of this the Cantonese
had three million rubles.
Thus the Nationalists did not re-
ceive a great deal of help in materials,
but did get a great deal Of help, man
for man, by way of the advisers who
assist in the administration most eff
feetively, and the present prestige Of
the Cantonese is decidedly due to
their efforts in the past two years in
the military, political and educational
departments