Dec. 28:
The struggle for power within the Kuomintang has now taken an entirely new turn, At first, it was feared that the military leaders within the party would immediately send armies against each other for the possession and control of territory, and that is not altogether an impossibility, for the divisions of territorial control are such that actual armed conflicts are not beyond probability: In fact, the political and military control of Canton and Hankow by the Kuangsi leaders and the present military possession of the capital, Nanking, by General Li Chung-jen, another Kuangsi Leader, does not indicate that the Kiangsu-Chekiang group are in physical control of the territory which they hope to govern in a few days. All that they can possibly be sure of is that part of northern Kiangsu which General Ho Ying-ching now occupies and the province of Chekiang. But the feudalization of Kuomintang territory is a tendency to which tov much attention net not be paid at this moment; the next two months will undoubtedly unfold it in all its prominence. legality greatest interest, -because now that the civilians have found something to fight over, there will be no end of long statements in the vernacular press, intense recriminations and ensations, and the main value of it will be that the public will have an opportunity to learn how badly they are being treated.
The question of legality, over which they are now quarrelling, was first brought to public no-by Mr. Wang Ching-wei in his effort to seize the Nanking Government and to control of the Kuomintang in the interest of the semi-Communists. Mr. Wang's ideas were to be heartily supported at the conferences which were held at Route Tennant de la Tour, but unfortunately his legalistic turn of mind suffered a lapse when his semi-Communist associates in Canton were unable to control their' Communistic allies and when one of the greatest massacres in modern Chinese history took place that city because of their perfidy and his reckless polities. If the Nanking Government was not constituted legally, surely the coup d'etat in Canton and the massacre and murder and looting there were also illegal.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.