Military Council General Chen Chien, commander of the 6th Army at the time of the Nanking Outrage, has been appoint ed chairman of the Military Council of the Nationalist Government. It is also proposed to make him command der of the army which will be sent in the Northern Expedition. Thi appointment of General Chen, it is understood, is part of the compromise reached with the Hankow Governments.
In his inaugural address as Chairman of the Military Council, General [Chen is reported to have said:
After the downfall of Wu Pei-fa and Sun Chuan-fang, the other two militarists, Chang Tso-lin and Chang Chung-chang would have been crushed, had the Communists not started troahle within the Nationalist Government and made a farther northward advance impossible. Now, the Party has been purified of the Communists and Yen Shih-shan and Feng. Vu-hsiang have already commenced their campaign against Fengtien and Shantang. We must, therefore, immediately continue the Northern Ex-edition in order to attack Peking and Chang Tso-lin's old nest jointly with Yen and Feng, "At present, we have an army quantity but not of quality, must reorganize our army by making ire it conform to a regular budget. The size of our army must be based upon the revenue of the nation. Now is the time to lay down the foundation for the reorganization.
"Starting from Canton, we have increased our army in number but due to the lack of uniform pf milltary education, our fighting strength has not increased. Hereafter we must emphasize military education in our army.
'In Kuangtung, our army reorg ganization had a' definite system, Even at Nanchang, our definite system had not been sacrificed, Due to later developments, this system underwent gradual changes, The reorganization at the present time has for its object, the development of a definite and uniform system in the Nationalist Army.
"Our army strength is able to defeat milterists, but it is insufficient 16 fight against imperialists. We must look ahead and prepare for the future. Now we must lay the foundation by such means as_ the betterment of arms and munitions, the improvement of the sea coast] defences, the development of the air forees and the building of submarines, We must now talk of these things but must work for them,
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