Evening star., 1932-06-26
CHINA LACKS FUNDS.
TO CONTINUE WARS.
Nothing to Show for Sums Al
ready Spent to Suppress
Bandits and Reds.
BY REGINALD SWEETLAND.

b1 hEGANALD ShEEILAND.
BY Gable to The Star.
SHANGHAI, June 25.-There will be
no money in the national treasury to
encourage a new civil war in China. and
by the same token there will be no
money to fight the growing menace of
Communism.
Such is the substance of the deter
mination of China's foremost civil
politicians, headed by Wang Ching-We
and communicated to the military
chieftains under Gen. Chang KaiShek,
Chinese generalisSimo and former Presi-
dent OF the Marking government.
While the civil leaders are dismayed
by the inroads of the Communist armies,
they feel they cannot finance war
against the reds with any assurance
that the funds will not fall into the
hands of army elements that will use
them to promote new civil war. These
same civil leaders point out that since
last September sums voted to and re-
ceived by Gen. Chang for bandit and
Communist suppression have totaled
3S 100000 silver dollars. Yet there Is
nothing to show for it.
No Fighting Without Funds.
If there is no money, there cannot be
any fighting, Is the attitude of the
civilian faction, and at present all
efforts are being made to create internal
harmony with such diversified groups
as those at Canton, Peiping, Shansi and
Shantung. all of whom are maintaining
small armies of their own and few of
which are able singly to finance a cam
paign for enlarging their own political
and military spheres of influence.
T11o1pO10tart fSidaV af
Gen. Chiangs Kuomintang clique. and
the son of the founder of the Chinese
Republic, DR.. Sun Yat-Sen. has gone
to Canton to try to settle the differ
ences between that section of the coun-
try and Marking.
T. V. Soong finance minister; DR..
Wellington Koo. Chinese assessor to
the League of Nations Manchurian
Inquiry Commission, and Wang Ching
Wei, who is head of the executive
branch of the government, have all
returned to Marking and Shanghai
after their visit to Peiping, where they
admit progress was made toward allay-
ing fears of further civil conflict.
While it has been hoped to push
through the plan for an opium monop-
oily designed to net the government a
minimum of 100,000,000 silver dollars
annually, the civil politician group, in
contrast with Gen. Chang heading the
military clique, has doomed the plan
to failure.
Lack of Assurance.
There is no assurance, they aver,
that the sum raised will fall into the
right hands, implying that the money
would enter the Golfers of Gen. Chang
and other military leaders. Hence the
plan is likely to be shelved.
1t has been revealed that Gen.
Chang, as permanent head of the Mill
tary Affairs Council expected to have
a major voice in Goling out these de-
sirable funds. Rather than permit that,
and because of their desire to prevent
further civil war, which Gen. Chiang's
four years of virtual dictatorship has
been unable to do, the civilians are
allowing the opportunity of raising
money to slip by.
In the same breath the civil poll
tical heads have virtually decided that
nothing shall be done about Manchuria
until the Leagues inquiry commission
has presented its report to Geneva in
September
1t is even possible that the Kuomin-
tang party's plenary session scheduled
for August will be postponed in the
face Of the Manchurian problem. China
fears that Japan will recognize the