Ruomintang Reds of Canton Stirring Up Farmers: Fights Becoming General now, A Ciisise Conersroxoexr.
Canton, Dee. 10.
Kuomintang Bolshevistic agitation—against Rood relationships.exi Landlords and tenants, is beginning to produce the feared evils. The "72 Guilds Commercial Journal" of Canton, in its issue of December 10, has a long despatch from its correspondent on the evil resulting from the formation of a Kuomintang Farmers' League in Kuangling. This League is forcing the landlords to receive 40 per cent. less rental than they have been receiving. According to the usual custom, Iandlord has absolute right over hig rice patches and may let to any tone he pleases for cultivation upon. practically a uniform agreement in the district, that a tenant shall offer his labour and the landlord his field, and the fruit of the harvest, will be equally divided, The landowners, from the produce of the soil, shal also be responsible for taxation and other public obligations and, in ease fof floods when the first planting destroyed, shall help tenants in the purchase of seedlings for replanting.
Generally speaking, the landlords are quite reasonable, and since there are but few or no large landiorgs in Kuangtung, such conditions as known to M. Borodin and other Soviet directors of Kuomintang Propaganda Bureaux do not really exists, In the Kuangling district, tae demands of Kuomintang Bolsheists for reduction of rentals by 40 per cent. have resulted in armed conflicts between the landlords Pro tective Association and the Kuomi tang Farmers' League, The Kuomintang Reds there charge the landlords with being in sympathy with the Canton Merchants Volunteer Movement and are trying to win by Jisarming the village volunteers of the district on the ground that the latter are opponents to the Kuomintang regime, The Magistra though a member of the Kuomintang, is not riding with the Reds and has referred the ease to the Civil: Governor at Canton,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.