Goneval Chiang Kai-shek is a pro-duet of the National'st revolution. Ho has no political existence except member of the Kuomintang. No matter how mixed his motives may be or may have become, he is sell part of the Kuomintang, even. if the part he most actively presents should be reactionary. Marshal Feng Vu-hsiang is not a product of the Kuomintang. He is product of northern militarism. When the Kuomintang was strugpling for existence in Canton, he Was fighting ax an underling of Marshal Tsao Kun and as the societe of Marshal Whatever he has eceomplished, whether for good or evil, has been Without the assistance of the Kuomintang, He owes little to the Party and has not, to an apprecia able extent, come under its influence, He talks of the "Three People's Principles,"" but. so did he ence talk of the Bible, Both are equally remote and equally useful in his propaganda and in mainta: ning di Cipline among his troops. Whatever good may be suid of him was said Tong before. he became associated with the Nationalist Movement; similarly, his reputation for irresponsible associations was made bifore then, He did not leave Tsao Kun and Wu Pesfu to join the Kuomintang; that came apparently as an after-thought.
Governor Yen is similarly situ edvonly morose, He has held Shan-since the founding of the Republic 17 years ago. He held it under every administration in Peking, without the assistance of the Kuomintang. He has been fighting Marshal Chang Tso-tin more as anally of Marshal Feng Vu-ha'ang than as an associate fof the Nanking Government, The Kuomintang has not helped him to hold Shansi; it could not have prevented him from holding that province.
Centre have degenerated into adulatory tuchunism, In such a sitifation, the activities of the Party in foreirg Feng Vu-hsiang and Yen Hsih-shan. to bend to the will of Nanking can be altogether discounted. They will suppress the Party in their ter~ ritory as counter-revolutionary and arrest ita leaders as secret C.P.'s The Question of a Capital The relationships of these men will become clarified when the at-
Marshal Feng and General Yen will insist that it is more practicable ig to ko the capital. even if temporarily. Nanking wil that Sun Yat-sen had designated Nanking as the capital, All. this Aisplay about the en pital will be a mere camouflage to cover a music struggle for power between Marshal Feng Vu-hsiang and General) Chiang Kai-shek. Although both! Canton and Hankow have been unfriendly to General Chiarg Kaishek, in the course of such a' struggle they will support h'm. For, after all, he is one of them, while Peng Vu-hsiang ie sider. Both Canton anc Wave already resented the influx of] Northerners into the Nanking Government, They have not taken a single step to ussist in the Northern Expedition, but imitarly, they have done nothing to impede its progress, General Li Chi-sen, even ame to Nanking against hi better judgment because General Chiang Kat-shek wanted the nppenrance, if Jnot the substance, of harmony. If Marshal Feng attempts to set_up 'a Government under h's dorsination, once the Northern Expedition is an. complished fact, the military men, any rate, of the Kuomintang will resist him and they will have the support of the
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