Comrade Chen on the Fallen Fortunes of the Kuomintang:
That British Bully Duncan Moscow, Sept. 16.
The following statement declaring that the Nationalist Government of China has been destroyed by a rillitary coup d'état and has ceased to exist as a political reality was issued here to-day by Chen Vu-jen (Eugene Chen!
"In pursuance of a decision of the presidium of the Political. Council at Wuhan and subsequently confirmed by the Council, I left China on a mission abroad in my capacity' as Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Nationalist Government, Grave changes, however, and a series of calamitous acts which have taken place in the Valley of the Yangtze render it no longer possible for me centres, peasants and their leaders, workers and their leaders, Chinese communist comrades and their leaders who lad laboured in order that Kuomintang power might reach the Yangtze, have been ruthlessly killed; and Soviet workers who gave of their best to the Kuomintang and whom men, in later and juster days, will judge to have deserved well of Nationalist China, have been forced to leave because little politicians reverting to type affect to believe that, as servitors of the new Caesarism on the Yangtze, they can sustain and carry out the stupendous tasks of the revolution, The Political Peddlers "And as a basis of the new order, ernment has ceased to exist as a political reality, 'The movement of defrayal started by Nanking militarists and their yamen runners and since completed by the Wuhan mili-turists and politicians is not only counter-revolutionary development but, in a real sense, a military' coup d'état which has' destroyed the Nationalist Government and closed famous period in the revolution.
"If that period has been made famous it is because the right cor-elation of all the revolutionary forces in operation in China enabled Kuomintang power to liquidate ten yours of disorder and confusion in Canton, to croute and finance revolutionary armies that conquered their way to the historic line of the! Yangtze and—after shattering the flower of the Fengtien army Honan—penetrated to the bank of the Yellow River, Besides its striking administrative work at Canton and the great feat of arms involved in the victorious march of the Northern Expedition to the Yangtze, the Kuomintang did some memorable things in a field of action in which China hitherto has always Known defeat and humiliation, It oise the international status of these political peddlers of Nanking and Wuhan are now negotiating! for their military masters a deal of well-known feudal pattern, differ. ing in nowise from the type of local administrative organs represented by the Peking bandit who frankly] ottonys himself on feudal auto-Jeracy. The new political organ will, of course, vary in form from the] Peking outfit. It will less openly admit its basis in political feudalism and will strive to mask itself within the party apparatus of the Kuomintang and in the framework of the Nationalist system of administration, But no one will be deceived by the device, The entire equipment will be, and will function as, 8 super-tuchunate sucking the|™ economic life-blood of the people in order that Hunanese and Kuangsi militarists, with their yamén-runners and retainers, may prosper and fulfil their little destines as class~ exploiters of the revolutionary masses of China, They will fail and go the wa of those before them who have sought to rule in like fashion. But} they must not be permitted to involve in their ultimate ruin the! heritage left to the people by Dr. Sun Yat-sen, The master's au-
China to a point never attained before and compelled the representa. tive of the great Powers to meet the foreign minister of Nationalist China as an equal and caused men in high as well as in scattered places of the earth to see in Chin Nationalism a new force in Asia with _whieli~-foreliin- imperialism téFs would have to reckon, In those days but a few months since—the Kuomintang may have been hated and even feared, but none dared to despise it. then tie followers must rally to support his true living representative in the person of Mrs, Sun Yat-sen, and resolutely seek to prevent the cal "Kuomintang from sinking to} the level of a mero secretariat to] the neo-tuchunate that is now] emerging from the mud of the Yangtze and from the disloyalties and intrigues of political compra~ dores who are despoiling the ree] conquests. volution of its material and moral
Sept. 15, 1027. (Signed) Chen Dark Work of Reaction "To-day It is otherwise. None] fears or vespeets the Kuomintang, months ago Kuomintang power was dictating to British imperialism, But throe weeks ago a British bully '<a soldier called Dunean—entered Chinese territory at Shanghai, seized a Chinese railway and cut it a strutogis point because the local Chinese authorities wore slow in complying with his insolent demand for the delivery of the wings of a British aeroplane that landed Chinese territory over which it had been flying in gross violation of all international conventions and in defiance of repeated Chinese protests. And like contempt towards the Kuomintang is manifested even by do-mastic foes who used to blench and flee at the sound of Kuomintang armies on the march.
"What is the explanation for this startling change in values and in men's opinions? The answer is to be found in the dark work of xeaction and counter-revolution in Canton, in Nanking and Shanghai, in Changsha and elsewhere in Hunan, and lastly in Wuhan, In those
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