'There is much sympathy for General Chiang Kai-shek among Nationalists, in spite of his reactionary) methods and his con fused statecraft. He and armies were rapidly' northward, They were i ranks, Marshal Feng Vu-hsiang was bringing up the rear and General Yen was gress, To-day, Marshal Feng fighting through southern Caihli and General Yen is on the, verge fof taking Peking, while General Chiang Kai-tick sits in Hsuchowfu and his armies are holding'
eng's rear, Such a disposition of priority cannot altogether be attributed to the Tsinan Incident. The Chinese believe that the Japanese took advantage of eizeumtances to interfere with the Northern Expedition, but is it not also n feet that both Sarshal Feng and General Yen took advantage of the Tsinan Incident t eliminate General Chiang Kai-shek from the] race to Pel He was <0 enter that city mander of the National now, he enn only come as the of either Marshal Feng Yv-hsiang for General Yen Hsih-shan, Yet they can only take Peking, because the Nationalist armies which had marched out of Canton in the sw mer of 1926, had made that pos-
At the Moment Moribund Were the Kuomintang the powerful, closely-knit, thoroughly organiz~ ed body that Borodin made it, there Could be little question but that Party. propaganda would have been coffective in forcing these two power ful members of the confederation fof militarists to abide by its will. But the Kuomintang is, at the inoment, moribund. Its activities have been £0 circumscribed by Nan-King, its spirit has been so broken by military repression, that it has become little more than a memory to most Chinese officials and only hope to a small group of resale! trant-men who still cling to the hope that they will restore, its power and prestige among the Chin-tse masses, Only the extreme Left Wing of the Party has vitality and it is being goaded to activity by the constant assumption that the Communist Party will sooner or later take the place of the Kuomintang in Chinese affairs, The Right and
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