The first stage! Have we not seen it, The Whampoa Academy, the organization of fighting units workers recruited from those who had been compelled to leave their, work and strike and who, as a consequence, were without means of support, the organization of revolutionary nuclei in the armies of the! Northern militarists, and the dis. organization by similar methods of Northern railway staffs and the crews of steamers in Northern em: ploy.
The second stage is that of affairs now in the Yangtze Valley. Information is scarce on the methods and organization of the Southern armies. We know that the officers: are accompanied by civil commissars, who rank equally with them and countersign their orders. It. has, become evident in Kiukiang that the soldiers do not like it. They realixe that they are being spied en and they resent it.
The troops on the whole appear to be much the same material as the a larger aged 16 to $0. There is also sprinkling of Whampoa Cadets, who. do not operate as a body, but are scattered singly as officers throughout the armies. These cadets are smarter than the average, Tactics in the Field For arms we have the usual motley collection of rifles, but also many troops armed with automatic pistols only. Tactics in the field {are simple, and almost always follow the same lines. They do not make frontal attacks on positions. On the only two oceas'ons when they have done this, at the walis of Wuchans, Jand Nanchang, they suffered heavy casualties. All the fighting so far has been hill fighting. They use their knowledge of the country and the friendly nature of the inhabit ants to bring small bodies of special shock-troops in the rear of the enemy position. They then make 'a noise both in front and behind the enemy, who proceeds to run away. Poor fellow, he is not used to noises! on both sides, but he fails to realize are much heavier than in his trenches. The shock-troops are of a better class than the ordinary troops and are armed with' Mauser pistols and hand-grenades.
The combination of armed invasion from without with civil war within can not be better exemplified than by what is. now going on in Chekiang. Moreover, those brilliant! "Oriental Fighters" Messrs. Borodin and Galens both speak Chinese, the latter fluently. It only remains to add that they also both speak English.
Russia's Ulterior Motive trees frst th ora ste Arey ited Sor sey grghing tt ort Thay net sao ciety Santa at eae centres when those a eects Set cee Tait aa ants inetaa Ceti atgetin ora rare ion "ions mesny Wo bombing semed intend Sh eet amic fin Sat age HO, eae ate Shot han di are coe hie ieee So tar cee Sripmeg chs preted GE oan rear cement hon They ust also Lamm how to transform the class stropele into. armed. warfare, There are two questions which] ise to the (1) What is the object of these Russians in China? We know it is not trade. Russia, moreover, has not ce much money' to spare that she can afford to! throw it about so lavishly in China out of sheer kindness.
Surely it cannot be that Russi intends to conquer China 'That' is incredible. There must be some ulterior motive and we may well ask ourselves what lies beyond China? A glance at the map will show us that beyond China lie Japan, The Pilippines, Tongking and Ind (2) What is the extraordinary influence that these Russians hold over the Cantonese, that they can make them run about like little boys?
Cantor's Foreign Brain To th's second question there can only be one answer and that is that the Cantonese owe the whole of their success to the Bolsheviks.
Hot-miration compels us to take our hats! off to those two "Red Oriental' blooded nationalism will rot run about at the. betest of foreigners unless it has to.
The Cantonese their cause lost. All those revolu tionary nuclei, all that strategy, those tactics, they are the work of sensible, inevitable and runabout. They may intend, when the full victory kas been won, to remove their masters. But they will then wake up to the fact that it is easier to win a victory than to hold a peace and that those master-minds are more necessary than ever. The Russians, #£ they have to go even tually, will leave China in a far worse' state than they found it, without ancestors, without "tao." and with education and religion de-ouched. Bolshevism breeds mot in peace but in turmoil. What a prospect! Four hundred millions. with the immemorial moral restraints removed. Thus does Bolshevism count on winning whatever the out~ come, The True Sun Yat-senism The "North-China Daily News" would be doing its readers, and the whole world, an immense' service, the Three Principles of Dr. Sun Yat= were it to investigate and expound
sen, not as they have been twisted and altered to suit Bolshevik pro-Paganda but as they were first propounded before illness had dimmed his intelligence. They are the moral forees which will move the Chinese race in the coming years to good and evil. It is essential that they should be understood by all foreigners liv= ing in China, i true champions propounded in the Three Principles, are the British, the Americans and the other nations of the West and not the Bolsheviks at all, Ts it too late to hope that the Kuomintang will destroy the viper in its bosom and turn for advice to those nations who are actuated by nothing but goodwill towards the peoples of China?
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