Chiang Kai-shell's Virtuah Sieclasatton-of War-on- Communist Hankow Closes Up the Banky: for Seige Funds. for the Struggle 'The reorganization of the new Government in Nanking has been duly celebrated in Nanking. and Shanghai and probably in other places in Kiangsu and Chekiang, Theoretically, there is no new Government,' Theoretically and by) resolutions passed in Hankow, the Central Executive Comittee of the Kuomintang hag moved its headquarters from Nanchang to Nanking, but these devious fictions are [of remote importance. Resolutions have been passed requesting G: neral Communications and the Central Bank. As the Central Bank reserves Jare.in Canton under the control of the-military there, the Hankow peo-Ble.are.in a very bad way. But the Hankow Government will by this method. achieve several millions which they will undoubtedly utilize start another war, this time, fgninst General Chiang Kai-shek's Government in Nanking. Thus, is the. Nationalist Government broken In twain with its far-famed, Russian-trained army fighting not "imperialism" and capitalism as they were several weeks ago, but counter revolution, for in the parlance of General Chiang Kai-shek, Hankow is. a Communistic counter-revolutionary body engaged in destroying the traits of the Kuomintang revolution, while Hankow accuses Nanking of doing exactly the same thing, but this time, it is not the Communist who is the counter-revolutionist, but the militarists who have sold out to the imperialist. All slogans are therefore to be revised on the basis of the new orientation, as the Russians will undoubtedly tell them in Hankow.
From financial standpoint, he plums are with the Nanking Gov been caused by the British-American bombardment of Nanking on March 24 or by Northern rebels and agents provocatewrs, AX jonalist Inquiry The demand for "adequate punish ment for Commanders of the troop! responsible for the murders, the personal injuries and indignities and material damage done ax also of all vd to be implicated" ne-the guilt of the ho captured Nanking.
While this guilt is contradieted in the preliminary state. ment issued on Maveh 22, a vigid ernment inquiry is being conted in order to ascertain the ex: ft facts of the ease, including veri-king, that his forces rounded up and captured approximately 30,000 Northern soldiers with rifles, bes thousands of camp followers, the city of Nanking itself.
General Cheng Chien has also veported that a number of those implicated have been executed, The Government propose that the question of punishment should await the findings of either the Government inquiry now in progress or by an International Commission of Inquiry to be immediately instituted by the Nationalist Government and H.B.M, Government, +The Naval Bombardment As the laws of na settled practice of prohibit the massacre of the Of a friendly state, the more so when such citizens are in thei own tarr tory, and also prohibit the bombardment of the cities of friendly states, sion of Inquiry shall investigate the circumstances of the bombardment of the unfortified city of fon March 24 last by the naval of H.B.M, Government as well as the other outrage committed successively by British controlled armed forces at Shanghai on May 0, 1925, by Bri igh armed marines and volunteers of the Shameen on June 23, 1925, and by British naval forces at Wanhsien Inst year, The demands for an apology in by the Commander-in-Chief of the Nationalist army including fan express written undertaking to refrain from all forms of violence and agitation against foreign liv and property, is, so far as an apon Jogy is concerned, justified only on the proof of Nationalist guilt for the disturbances at Nanking. The Nationalist Government, therefore propose that question of an apology
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