Vigorous Paper Warfare: Hankow Accused of Robbing People of $21,000,000
The war of propaganda, at least, }waged by the Chiang Kai-shek party land Chinese merchants continues merrily. In the course of a lecture, Mr, Lung Shun, chairman of Shanghai branch of the Kuomin. tang, says that the Hankow Communist Government is composed entirely of corrupt and undisciplined persons who have robbed the people of more than $21,000,000 since proclaiming the moratorium.—Unless these people are exterminated there jean never be peace in China, he said.
Chinese papers report that, acting under instructions from the tionalist Political Bureau, a party of soldiers visited the different Kuomintang headquarters at Pootung. Nanhui and Chuansha and—suppressed them in addition to arresting Several score of notorious Com munists. In view of the large quantities of Communist leaflets and application forms found, the an: thoriffes consider that they were Justified in suppressing these places which, they say, were not Kuomintang branches but Communist nests.
Messrs. Wong King-yung, Chang Sian-ling and Doo Yoeh-sung, leading merchants of the Concession, who have ed the AntiCommunist fan organization which ceiving considerable support from all parts of the country, have cis culated another telegram in which. they deny that they have started this Teague to fight Communism for selfish reasons, They say that they have read too much of the activities of the Bolsheviks in Russia "and realized the menace they are facing in China: so they have issued thei appeal to the public for support the fight. They say, in conclusion that they cannot and will not bear} to see the beautiful Chinese: civilization, several thousand years old, trampled down under the fect. of the Bolsheviks.
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