The Archive · 1926

Not China's Friend

Does the Nationalist Government] of Canton propose a class revolution and the confiscation and nationaliza~ tion of properties? On the one hands che allows the labourers} excessive liberty in Canton and on the other she plans an-economic revival on a very large scale. They} speak of the revolution in the south. What kind of a revolution do we want since we have recogniz~ ed the revolution of 1911? Why contradict ourselves? What they actually mean is that the southern! militarists and the Cantonese Anti-

Northern Expedition aim at the annihilation of the militarists in the! north. Do you not know that this selfishness, this greed for power 's the cause' of the endless troubles which When China, place, China has been having? one militarist is finished in another rises to take his fighting breaks cut and jons and expeditions are Take, for example, Por-1d Mexico, because they the best illustrations.

Chisng Kai-shek is a traitor to his country, your real enemy, because he is really selling the country to the foreigners, to the imperialists and to the militarists, the Bolshevik Russians. He is not your friend, and he is not China's friend. He is our enemy. He talks of overthrowing militarism and imperialism, of hurting the British, but is he not a militarist himself and does he-not accept the Soviet imperialism? Chiang Kai-shek's crimes are too numerous to enumerate? For the sake of everybody, it is our hope and advice to you that you should start a now revolution, if necessary, that of going against Chiang Kaishek, if you do not desire to classed as his running dogs?"

From Monday the China Merchants Steam Navigation Ca. susfended all its Yangtsze traffic in order that no more of its vessels should be commandeered by the military. a rather significant fact that, 0 far as we are able to ascertain, whilst all the foreign newspapers Toeally have been featuring the Wan-_ shien affair as the big news of the moment, not a single vernacular} newspaper locally has even mentioned it,

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