The Archive · 1925

Reds and a Student Army

Gen, Chiang Kai-shek (the Red commander in Kuangtung, who has ordered his men to attack Fukien)

said have sent an agent to Shanghai to recruit 5,000 students for training in the Whampoa Military Academy and later for service in army. It is interesting in this connexion to that the local' [students organizations are agitating. for the establishment of a student army and that a number propose to go south shortly to enter Gen. Chiang's service. The next. issue) Jof the "Shanghai Students' Union Journal" will contain such subjects ty "The Necessity of Forming a Student Army," "Armed Revolution and the Student," "The Organization the Student Army and Its Plans", and "The Revolutionary Movement} mand the Students Since the May 20] Incident."

The latter will include] vice, the question of funds, uniforms, Jarms, title, songs, ete.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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