Evening star., 1927-05-13
CHANG IS BUILDING
MILITARY ALLIANCE
Japanese Patronage Included
in Plans for New
Chinese Rule.
BY VINCENT SHEEAN.
Correspondent OF The Star and the North
American Newspaper Alliance.

Correspondent OF The Star and the North
American Newspaper Alliance.
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SHANGHAI, April 27.--On the ruins
of the Chinese Nationalist movement
Chang Kai-Shek intends to raise an
ediflce of military alliance to "unify"
his country against the government
he once served.
Negotiations are now under way
! between Chang and Sun Chuan-Fang,
former warlord of Kiangsu Province,
for a combination of forces against
''bolshevism." There is the strongest
possible suggestion of Japanese pat
ronage for this alliance, with possi-
bility of British help. Wang Flu, a
well known pro-Japanese politician,
entered Chang's Marking government
this week for the purpose of insuring
the success of the new combination.
Agreement with NOrtherner.
A secondary portion of this new
negotiation is an agreement with
Chang Tso-Lin whereby the Man.
churian warlord accepts the three
principles of Sun Yat-Sen and there
after retires to Manchuria to rule in
peace. The whole object of the pro-
jected agreement among the warlords
is the destruction of the Chinese Ma
tionaliSt government in Hankow on
the ground that it is bolshevist.
These facts, which / unearthed at
Nanking with the help of Chang's
own officials, mean the ruin of the
Nationalist movement and the abso-
Lutte collapse Of the Is years work of
Sun Yat-Sen and his disciples.
Chang himself is still hesitating and
still acutely miserable over the neces-
sity Of making a decision, but since he
has already chosen there is no possi-
bility of his retracting now. He is
surrounded bv officials and generals
who intend to make sure that he does
not retract. The negotiations with
Sun Chuan-Fang are already far ad-
vanced, and the conversations with
Chang Tso-Lin through the japanese
are ready to begin as soon as this first
step is completed.
Chang Remains at Marking.
Chang Kai-Shek has manifested the
turmoil which this decision has caused
him by his extraordinary behavior for
the past few days. He remains in his
own palace at Marking, lying down
for hours at a time and refusing to
see the generals and ministers of his
own new government. Only the two
or three generals who have been with
him throughout the campaign are
privileged to approach him, and pa
pers lie for days on his desk without
being looked at.
Nevertheless, whatever his COM
FUNCTIONS may be, his course is al
ready definitely mapped out and he is
committed to follow two main lines OF
policy-first, to throw all the blame
for the Nanking outrageS on the Han
kow government, with the accusation
that they We're deliberate Bclshevist
plot, thereby rendering the allied
bombardment and capture of Hankow
probable; second, to "unify" China by
an alliance with other military ad-
venturers on the pretext of destroying
Bolshevism and annihilating the rad
ical" group Of the Kuomintang.
Visits Tomb of Sun.
In spite of this, Chang pretends,
and probably feels, undiminished ardor
for the Kuomintang. Thursday he
paid ceremonial visit to the tomb of
Sun Yat-Sen, overlooking Marking,
where he remained bowed in medita-
tion several minutes-in the presence
of photographers. Every Monday
morning ritual service is held before
Sun Yat-Sens portrait at Chang's
headquarters and throughout his
army The reading of the great lead
er's will forms one of the daily cere-
monies at headquarters-this, although
one of it's principal provisions is 1--WE
must ally ourselves with those who
N.eat us as equals" meaning Soviet
Russia, against those who would en-
Slave u.s." meaning the Western
powers.
Nanking is plastered with cartoons
showing Borodin being driven out of
China by Chinese soldiers, and Chang's
military committee has completed
plans for campaign against Hankow
in case the powers don't destroy the
city before Chang gets there.
Gen. Stallen, the chief Russian ad-
wiser to Chang's army, has returned
to Hankow. Five other Russian ad-
risers are remaining on Chang's staff,
but it is doubtful how long he can
keep them now.
Kuomintang Area Disintegrating.
Meanwhile, the Kuomintang terri
tory is disintegrating rapidly. Canton
city and province are now completely
independent, refusing to admit allegi-
ance to either the Hankow or Nam
tie doubt that the Nationalist move
ment, one of the most impressive
movements of modern times, Is ruined.
The would-be Fascist government
which Chang is constructing at Man.
king contains an incongruouS aSSort-
ment of politicians, ranging from real
reactionaries to right-wing Kuomin-
tang people, like WI, the new foreign
minister, whom Chang himself ex.
PEELED from the party two years ago.
Their only point of contact is ac-
Ceptance of Sun Yat-Sen's three prin-
ciples-principles of such broad sig.
nificance as to be meaningless without
the rest of Suns program. To finance
this adventure Chang has $500, 900
Mexican dollars, 100000 of which he
extracted from Shanghai bankers last
week. With the wholesale appoint
ments that he has made--in some
cases two or three people to the same
position in the same place-thiS will
soon dwindle, and he will be reduced
to the customary devices OF Chinese
war loard to collect funds. He is al.
ready experiencing embarrassments
caused by his own Ignorance of civil
government and finance and his utter
dependence on the crowd of officials
and politicians whom he inherited
from earlier regimes.
Rides in Private Car.
My visit to Marking ended with a
serio-comic episode which illustrates a
good many characteristics Of Chang
administration. With laudable gen
erosity, he insisted on giving me his
private car to return to Shanghai, al
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