"Enlarged" Conference Nanking, Joly, 18, Characterizing the" "enlarged plenary seasion of the Central Exe-futile Committee of the Kuomintang" held at Peking as no more than "a bit of farce enacted by the counter-revolutionary elements. for the entertainment of the people, Mr. 'Lia La-yin, Director of the Publicity Depariment of Central Party Headquarters, in an interview with' pross representatives. yesterday, declared that the conference had een mancuvred by Yen Hsi-shan to ensure his future surytva "The points arousing smusement fare clear to everyone of us," Me, Liu continued: "in the first' place, to which plenary session, the' frst Jor the second, docs this "enlarged conference" reter? Whether the one or the other is implied make itis difference, as the majority of tha teembers of both sessions is at Nan king. Therefore, what remains is) but © handful of men, who call them. selves members of the Central Com. mittee, but who have long lost any right to the title. Failing to produce] 2 sufficient number of members of either plenary secsion fas Chao Peilien who been "connected with the Sisto second plenary session are being} included, Is this not ridiculous? therefore, know that what they call an "enlarged conference" is but an assortment of members of several cliques gathered together to. take] part in & comical drama, with one person enacting three roles, that is, Jone person signing for three in the} manifesto issued after the confer.
Continuing, Mr. Liu declared that] in of his military, financial li tical failures, the Shansi rebel leader has apparently determined to utilize this conference cover up his blunders. Special] efforts were, therefore, made to) bring the Reorganizationist_ clique and the so-called Western Hill group together, so that the semblance of government may be established with Yen himself as the head. In this capacity, Yen hopes to control Feng Vu-hsiang with regard to military affairs on the one hand, and, fon the other, accept or reject any} political schemes of the Reorganizationists. "But it is very doubtful whether Feng or the Reorgani tionists will submit to him," Mr. Liu concluded; "judging from recent) reports from Peking, the secret quarrels between the vari cliques threaten to break out into an open rupture, which is apparently accelerated by the conv cation of *he "enlarged conference.'
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