The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-09
CHINESE ARMIES
MAY UNITE TO
COMBAT REDS
Noted Jurist Says Warning
Will Combine to Fight
Common Enemy.
BY WILLIAM PHILIP SINfMS
seripos-Hovard Foreign Editor


Face to face with the common
peril of Red army terrorizing CEN
trail and southern China, the Ma
tionalists Of Marking and the north
ern Coalitionists of Peking are ex-
pected at any time to stop their own
war in order to meet the new dan
ger.
Such was the statement made be-
fore the institute of politics here by
Judge Liang Yuen-Li Of the Shang-
hal provisional court, International
ly known Chinese jurist high in Ma
tionalist councils.
He had no fear that Communism
would engulf China, Judge Liang
said, despite the capture Of impor-
tant cities and territory. The Com
nuniSt idea, he declared, is foreign
to Chinese social psychology, and
the Picking faction as well as the
government at Marking is opposed
to the teachings of Moscow.
No Red Tinge
1t is a great mistake, said Judge
Liang, to jump at the conclusion
that the northern coalition is allied
with the Communists or that the
Hankow authorities are tinged with
red. Such, he asserted, is not the
case. AS a matter of fact north
and south, Peiping and Marking,
are at war over minor differences of
government.
1.-THE fact that the northernerS
have not organized a new govern
ment at Peiping despite the pres
ence of the coalition leaders there,
and that no more fighting On any OF
the several fronts has been reported
recently, are very significant" Judge
Liang declared.
Il would not be at all surprised,
therefore" the jurist observed, "if
negotiations are going on at this
very moment between the Marking
and Peiping leaders with a view to
arranging for general congress of
Nationalist at which the two fac
tons might reunite."
Result of Banditry
THE present situation in China"
said DR.. George H. Blakeslee of
Clark university, chairman of the
far-eastern round table, 'is the re-
suit in part of banditry and in part
Of genuine Communism. The ban
ditry develops from economic misery
and political disturbance. The Com
munism develops from the entente
between the Nationalist and the
Communists established back in
1924"
Though the Russians were ex-
PEELED from the country in 1927 fol-
lowing the Communicative
break, DR.. B1akeslee asserted, the
influence undoubtedly still remains,
as events in the Yangtze valley and
in south China prove conclusively,
Driven underground in 1927, he eX-
planned, Chinese Communists now
have come to the surface again ''in
a revolt which is a union of eco
nomic distress and Communistic
philosophy"
Speaking of the reported estab-
lishment of a Soviet regime south
Of the Yangtze, General Yakhon-
toff, former member of the Keren-
sky cabinet, declared 1t was not sur
prising.
Over Vast Territory
cit is no wonder" he said, chat
under the conditions prevailing in
China at the present time, they
have succeeded in setting up So
Wet system in a territory inhabited
by 30,000.0 900 people and forming red
armies that are terrorizing vast
areas"
To the suggestion that many So
called armies" are made up of
mostly bandits, General Yakhontoff
replied that while that may well be
true, one would need TO be blind in
deed not to see that they, neverthe-
less, have political Importance.
1.-THE alarming events around
Changsha and in the Hankow re-
gion," he warned, ARE far more Sc
rious than the accusations against
the omnipotent and omnipresent
BolSheviks would imply. They are
development of the Chinese revolu-
ton and undoubtedly reflect what
happened in Russia a dozen years
ago. 1t is apt to continue for many
years to cOme:''