The present Yangtze war is purposcless. Chiang Kai-shek was ap-Parently unable to remain in Canton, much longer and he started a war, which has for years appealed to the Cantonese mind, to make it possible for him to become thy dictator of the south. Every ce sideration of good government decency has been subordinated the requirements of this expedition. Chiang Kai-shek's departure] was the signal for fighting between the white and red unions on the streets of Canton. For the moment, ithe reds are again triumphant, but in street warfare it is an up-and-down proposition, Tang Chi-yso, out of Yunnan, is waiting for his opportunity to tura Kuangtang, Kuangsi, Kueichow an¢ 'Yunnan into a Southern feudal hol! ing such as Chang Tso-lin possesses, fu Manchuria, Chen Chiung-ming, 'Chiang Kai-shek's former chief, at work within the province' of Kuangtung organizing oppositional groups and setting aflame the provineial pandita, who are ever re: to test their' strength with Power within the city of Canton The question is whether Chiang Kaishek is in a position to turn back. Must he not go forward to win a place for himself? Can he return to Canton or must he go on te Wuchang? And if he comes into the Yangtze, is he not in a field where; he is fighting other well-organized, well-trained and in some respec's foreign-affeered armies?
Again in Kuangtung, he was the advocate of Communist principles, Jon which there is a certain glamour because of the position of Dr. Sax Yateen. In central China, in th Yangtze Valley, these doctrines ar unpopular. It is in the Yangtze Valley that the white Kuomintas has most of its adherents, and that] the anti-Communist students are jul. Will he become il he fall from his high of public distrust and dissatisfaction?
On the other hand, even if Chiang Kai-shek is cl: minated and his army, of 120,000 men scattered, nothing settled. For Feng Vu-hsiang has preserved his full force and all his strength and the other southerners, who have kept Kuangtung in disorder for more than a decade, will replace him. The civil strife apparently must go on because the elimination of one leader er the elevation of ancther leads to_nething. There are no ecnclesions
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