Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-30
CHINESE REFUGEES
Join NEW REVOLT
Chang Kai-Shek Faced With
Instruction on Wide
Front.

BY CHARLES STEPHENSON SMITH,
Chief Of Foreign Service OF the Associated
Press.
Chang Kai-Shek and his Nationalist
associates at Marking are racing lnSur-
rection, which is scattered all the 2,Ouo
miles from Dairen, in the southern UP
of Manchuria, to Canton, in emma
most southern province OF Kwantung.
Chinese political refugees are return
ING to Canton and other points where
they may assist in the movement against
Marking without exposing themselves 70
the bayonstS of ChiangS soldiers.
Eugene Chen, Tang Shao-Yl ana
host Of other internationally known men
are at Canton directing the insurrec--
tionary organization, which they cali
"the new Nationalist government
Charge UsurpatiOn.
Their movement is directed against
alleged abuse of power by Chang Kali
Ehek and his many relatives and ad-
ViserS, who are charged with attempting
to usurp authority which should be
vested in the Chinese public.
Already there have been moves by
the new Canton government to take over
the customs and the salt revenues. ms
Is the favorite way Of raising money 1or
instructions in China.
The fate Of the Marking government
rests very largely on the attitude OF
Chang Hseuh-Liang, the. governor OF
Manchuria AS Manchuria goes, SO
goes all China.
The Manchurian governor allegedly is
friendly to Marking. yet he has per-
n1itted Chang Tsung- Chang to locate NJ
Dairen, where he is organizing against
the Marking control.
Returns From Exile.
Chang Tsung- Chang Is the former
war lord of Shantung, whom Chang
Kai-Shek forced out OF the country.
Chang has been living in japan for .
long time, but has now transferred ms
wives, concubines and numerous chill
dren to Manchuria.
Yen Shi-Shan, former governor OF
Shansi, and Gen. Feng Yu-Hsiang, who
Jointly led an unsuccessful rebellion
against Marking last year, are said TO
be represented at a conference called at
Dairen by Chang Tsung- Chang.
II Manchurian forces were to join
With the Cantonese In movement
against the Yangtze River. Chang Kali
Shek and his troops would md them
selves in a very precarious position.
Chang Hsueh-Liang, the potentate OF
Manchuria, like his late father, Chang
Tso-Lin, is an opportuniSt who Is liable
to cast his lot with any winner.
Until Chang Kai-Shek and his sup
porters clearly were in control Of the
Yangtze Valley the Manchurian gov
ernor held aloof. There always has
been some doubt as to how loyal the
Manchurian forces are to the Marking
organization.
Communism Denied.
South Of the Yangtze the four great
provinces Of Human, Kiangsi Kwangsi
and Kwantung show much disaffection.
Chang Kai-Shek calls the trouble max
erS Communists and bandits, but E1-
gene Chen, who Is China's greatest mas
ter of polemics, stoutly denies that the
Canton government is Communistic.
Hankow and Marking are the key
cities in the struggle for control OF the
Yangtze Valley. AS Hankow Is the chief
iron producing center, the terminus OF
the railway leading south from Peiping
and the head Of important navigation
on the Yangtze, 1t Is the prize for which
the Canton government doubtless will
strive.
The Marking government made itself
possible through moving 500 miles
northward overland from Canton and
capturing Hankow. From there its
movement down the Yangtze was fairly
easy.
Marking is 100 miles from the mouth
Of the Yengtze and Is of great strategic
value, as the railway connecting Shang-
hal with Tientsin, Peiping and Man
churia crosses the river at that point.