As long as the rival generals of the Kuomintang are absorbed in the strategy of "dishing" one another, there" seems no reason why this infection" should not on spreading far and wide, for the ground has been only too well prepared for it by two years and more of propaganda, con-Gucted, let it not be forgotten, "by the recognized-agents 02 the Kuomintang. It wae the Kuomintang, under the inspiration of Dr. Sun himself, who hed up the methods
fand it cannot shut off the Te-rant peasantry as their mode, Rsalan "omumdnizn, "to the
Sponsibility for such a reversion to tier barbarism as this; the less 30 because it Is the faction-monzering within the party that is responsible Yor ite gola on uncontrolled, The leader. of this horde. until' eight months ago' was the representative agriculture in the party conclaves
big platform, known then as a Swatow, and a speaker on every person. But such, the party seems to take perverse delight in honouring.
Places much nearer Swatow have! been suffering only a little Tess ing anarchy.
For a bitter feud was the city of Pening the surrounding villages. It really was the recrudescence feud dating back about forty yer but it was waged under the new slogans f "Red" and "White." The net result has been the burning, in whole or in part, of several dozen villages. The Chinese estimate of the number of houses burned is about five thousand, and, even if some exaggeration be allowed for, the reality remains horrible enough. Large numbers of the people are Said to be left destitute and unsheltered about the countryside, The same thing is taking pla-e in lesser degree elsewhere. In the absence of all control, either local or central, old feuds are being revived and old off. The old order has gone, smashed by the Nationalists, and has yielded to mere anarchy.
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