The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-11-06
REVOLT THREAT
SEEN IN SOUTH
CHINA REGIME.
Increase Seen in Ranks Of
Communists Despite OPP
position
ISSUE Is COMPLICATED
Execution of Radicals by Gov.
eminent Fails to Thin
Ranks

Shanghai, Nov. 6.-(P)-Growing
fear of new radical outbreaks in
South China, with a possible over
throw of the Canton government, is
one Of the major disturbing ele-
ments facing the Marking govern
ment.
Reds, pinks and communists have
increased their activities despite
every effort of the nationalist gov
eminent to crush them. Their
ranks continue to grow in the face
of the combined official opposition
Of Marking and Canton.
Enemies Of the Kuomintang are
accusing the nationalists of at
tempting to exert an authority far
more autocratic than ever before
tried in China. Student movements
or any sort of an agitation have
been crushed ruthlessly, as far as
possible, by the Marking clique.
Marking is genuinely afraid of
radicalism in any form, after it's
experiences under Russian influ-
ence of more than year ago. Rus
sian influence still remains to a de-
gree in kwangtung and in Canton,
where the nucleus of radical Chi
nese remained after the Russians
were expelled from China the early
part of the year.
Groups Are Split
The issue in Canton and Kwanp-
tung and kwangsi provinces is in
volved. Marking theoretically rules
but the actual administrators of
Canton and its province of Kwang-
tung is . Kwangsi clique which has
been in Canton for years. Cam
tonese want to run their own prov
ince. The radical element and the
Cantonese Nationalist are to-
gether as far as overthrowing the
Kwangsi group, but there the Cam
tonese and the radicals part COM
pany. The former then would adj
here to Marking while the radicals
would >have none of it but set up
their own administration, establish
a communist regime and turn China
red throughout.
Marking is resorting to strong
methods to curb the Cantonese
radicals. Kwangsi is willing as
their real authority is preserved
in the process. Marking would
crush it's radical enemies and then
remove the Kwangsi group as the
final step to establishment of their
authority in Canton and south
China. But it's harsh methods are
failing to obtain the desired re-
suits. Radicals are expected in
Canton daily, but still their ranks
continue to grow. Stude IN s
throughout all China, repressed by
the Nationalist in their zeal to be
an active part of the Kuomintang
and use the new found creed as q
means for furthering all sorts Of
aims. are flocking to the radical
banners. They allege Marking
has gone autocratic and is, along
with foreign imperialists' and
others, proving an enemy to real
China.
Outcome Is Doubtful
Making considers the Canton
situation a grave menace to the
future of the Kuomintang and the
Nationalist. No one will venture
q guess as to the outcome but
every effort is being made to stifle
the radicals. For weeks from forty
to fifty alleged Reds and labor lead
ers have been arrested in Canton
daily and twenty to thirty daily
face the firing squad. The con-
tinued and wholesale carnage of
for the great part innocent laborers
is resulting in a deep lying hatred
Of both Marking and the alien
rulers from Kwangsi who manage
to maintain their authority in Cam
ton.
The net result Of the government
reign of terror is that not one per
cent of the real Red leaders are
apprehended, but that scores of in
nocent men and women are ar
rested. court-martialed and shot.
As a result opposition to this
SRightist" government is growing,
and noticeably SO during recent
months.