Evening star., 1933-08-06

guarantees of defense counsel for the
accused and cessation Of methods Of
cruelty and torture commonly practiced
to extract confessions.
The prestige of the league has in
creased in recent months, and q wide
public has been interested Nine.
Suns support also Of the ancient prayer
for free press has given heart to the
fourth estate. Formerly supine edi-
torial columns now begin to reflect a
national demand for legalization Of
political groups. including the Socialist
and Communists. for an end to undis
ciplined militarism and above all for
the convocation Of a peoples assembly
and the granting ',f constitution.
Organized Boycott.
Enlbitterlnent against military law
nessness has not, however, prevented
her from acting with decision during
the Sino-Japanese hostilities. Much
as she loathes war she saw clearly that
no one would fight China's war for her.
She has worked ceaselessly to secure a
national support for economic meas
ures to halt Japan. The attempt has
| been discouraging, for the Chinese as
a whole continue to look upon the
quarrel with Japan as something to be
| settled by the Kuomintang generals.
But she has kept on-organlAng the
boycott, organizing youth, aiding and
encouraging volunteers. sending money,
bandages. messages Of cheer:
When at Shanghai the 18th Route
Army turned revolutionary and refused
to yield the city to the japanese;
soong Ching-ling worked night ana
| day. She organized the big 1nterna-
tional Hospital in Chiaotung University.
She recruited women to prepare cloth
ing. sheets, bedding. bandages; she
made Of her own home storehouse
| where those things were delivered each
day. Nine Sun appealed to the wl1e
of prominent Chinese diplomat. ask
| ing her to find volunteer nurses, band
age makers, hospital helpers.
"Impossible!" she exclaimed. our
girls are Of gentle birth and they can
| not go into the hospitals to care lot
rough men It is all right for foreign
women, who are used to that SORT OF
| thing. but We cannot possibly permit
o,Ir dauohters and sisters to engage in
such work or associate WIN common
soldiers"
II comprehend. Ching-ling replied
,weetly. "You will let them die for you,
but not with you"
Symp0IhlLcS WIN hOD.
Nine. Sun strongly sympathises with
the Red 1mies now fighting obscurely
but nevertheless desperately TO pre-
serve their government. over 50,ooo,ouu
| Chinese in the central provinces: "A
woman OF unusual grit herself, perhaps
she admires their spirit. 1t Is not gen
orally known that the Chinese Com
munist Government has of1cially de-
clared war on Japan, pledging to at
tempt recovery of the lost territories
If Nanking ceases to make war against
it. Surrounded on all sides by enc
mics, armed with virtually nothing but
rifles and pitchforks, these farmers Tor
four wears have held out against over
| whelmingly superior forces equipped
| with modern airplanes and artillery
They have steadily increased their ter
ritorieS. won over to their side division
after division Of government troops sent
against them. and DOW have had the
audacity to declare war on Japan! II
is difficult to suppress mod1cum OF
contempt for the Judgment which can
not reach a rapport with them, ano
sends costly expeditions against them
while the japanese push down from the
north.
Because she demanded cessation OF
prominent connection with many lber-
alizing movements and her ceaseless
effort to relieve the oppressed. many
people have asked me whether Nine
| Sun is q Communist. I do not know.
| but I am inclined to doubt 1t.
Many think that when DR.. Sun ad-
mitted Communists into the original
Kuomintang he was convinced that
there was really little fundamental
conflict in the two PHILOSOPHERS. Both
have the same avowed purposes OF
achieving social. economic and politi-
cal unity and justice. Both Of them
are concerned primarily with raising
and equalizing the status Of the masses
Of men who toll. Of feeding them, edu-
eating them. ensouling them, making
them into human beings.
That Soong Ching-ling's methods OF
achieving that end are the best meth
DDS Is, Of course, a matter Of opinion;
| but that she Is devoting here life to the
service Of China cannot be questioned.
She has kept faith with the leader
whose body lies splendidly enshrined on
Purple Mountain In faraWay NaukjuE.