By Geonce The changes in complexion of the Hankow Government and the Possible unification of the Kuomintang are the result of cidental exposure of one of the most sinister plans conceived by the Third International and quietly being carried out by Comrada Borodin, T shall give this story as it has come to me from sources. which may be accepted as reliable and hich should be thoroughly informed with regard to events in Wuhan: called attention to the new programme of the Third International /with regard to China, Mr. Sun fo jand Mr. Wang Ching-wei had heard nothing of such a change in policy and were, according to my in. formant, surprised that there should have been " change without their Irowledge. In the course of the discussion on the subject, they were shown a copy of the new instruetions, which practically indicated that Borodin was to organize a 100 per cent, Communist Government in Hankow; that he was to destroy all the Kuomintang leaders in the place and that he was to organize Communist army which was to fight and eventually eliminate the Henkow Government's armies, The Programme of Duplicity As given to me, this programme fentained five provisions, as fol-
1, Land in Hunan and Hupeh is to be confiscated by the peasants without any reference to the Government, the peasants acting throug the €. P.
2 A new leadership ix to be created within the Kuomintang consisting entirely of C. P. members: the Left Wing of the Kuomintang is to be eliminated.
3, The Kuomintang organization is to be reconstructed along more radical lines, so that, in due course, the Kuomintang asa party disappears end the Communist Party of China takes its place.
4. A court is to be created consisting of persons with known reputations, which is to judge counterrevolutionary military' men and to punish them for their opposition to the revolutioner jes of the should return to Russia; that a plenary session of the Central Executive Committee should be called at Hankow to meet on Avgust 15; that all radical movements should be forbidden and that a delegate be sent to Moscow to explain to the Third International the true character and intentions of the Kuomintang and the reasons for the present actions, An attempt was made by Comrade Borodin's friends to obtain for him a safe passage vid Shanghai, but this they were unable to do as Nanking apparently was unwilling to let him pass. He is now said be on his way to Moscow through Marshal Feng Vu-hsiang's territory.
As soon as it was definitely determined that Borodin was leave China, negotiations commenced for peace between Nanking and Hankow and for the unification of the Kuomintang. The Left Wirg members of the party were apparently willing to make peace with wie Nanking Government but de-munded the elimination of General Chiang Kai-shek on the ground that, faz the split in the party had been between Borodin and Chiang Kaishek, now that one has gone, the other should go. On the other land, it is reported that Hankow military have proposed that a truce be arranged on the basis of the status quo possession of territory, that the liver embargo be lifted and buffer provines between Hankow and Nanking.
The entire political situation is of flux owing to and the proposals which are ing to and fro be, tween individuals and groups in the party. Meanwhile, Hankow is retaining General Galen and the other Kussian military advisers, because they will require Russian assistance should they launch thei offensive against Nanking, which, it is expected, will begin during the first week of (August. General Chiang Kai-shek has personally gone to along the Lunghai Rail. way to discuss the new orientation with Marshal Feng Vu-hsiang and the political world is agog with jitement because no one can possibly foretell what combination of circumstances and personalities will dominate the new situation, Finally, an army is tobe mized, drilled and armed. This army"is to consist of 20,000 armed Communists and.50,000 labourers and peasants of Hunan and Hupeh.
'Comrade Borodin was faced with' these proposals and was asked why he had mot informed the Kuomintang and the Wuhan Goverr ment that he had received them: His reply being unsatisfactory, the Wuhan Government began to take steps to prevent its destruction by the C. P, For these proboscis were definitely aimed at the Left Wing members of the Kuomintang who were managing that Government and at the Hunan and Hupeh military men who had been supporting it, Borodin was placed in the position of defending himself against the charge of having "double-crossed" those Chinese who had preferred to. support him against General Chiang Kai-shek when the split took place and who had retained him in China against} the advice of other Kuomintang: leaders who assured them that if ko split. 2 left the country there would be no,
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