This is a power which the foreigners and the Chinese unassociated with the Kuomintang have to face at the moment, and failure to understand its strength and methods can lend only to further disasters.
'To return then to Mr. Chen Kung po, who stirred up such a confusion in' Hankow and Wuchang. When 8 territory is conquered, the military hold it if they have nothing else to do until the civil administration can organize to take over. If the military have to fight in other parts, in China hitherto, a feudal tie pocket came into being which often endangered the—leader's position, for revenue and power! fell upon some subordinate who utilized it to strengthen himself and often to dislodge his superior. The Kuomintang take no such chai 'As soon as they enter a place, the agitational section becomes with its slogans, its strikes, its intimidations, its attacks upon' the so-called respectable citizens. one dares in the face of the threats, apparent confusion and to a vers! large degree political chaos, to do anything against the—victorious Keomintang as the agitational scetion will ferret out the offender avd treat him drastically. This may' not he good government, it may not he decent. But it is excellent revol tionary tactics and because of it the Kuomintang with a very small army has been able to conquer ani old large territories, Me. Chzn Kung-po is a master in agitation although he is no administrator and Hankow particularly, his activ overdone and Ted to Jembarrassment to the civil administration when it arrived in the city.
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