Interesting Manifesto from Nankin; Uncompromising War on Communists: Pledge for Future Good Government The following declaration has been issued by the Nanking Government:—
The Nationalist Government the Republic of China was first established in July 1925, shortly' after the death of our late leader, Dr, Sun Yat-sen. At that moment! the Imperialists with their militarist partisans were out on an extensive campaign aiming at the fundamental extirpation of the Chinese revolutionary movement. There was bloodshed and massacre, and events fraught with equally' tragic import: followed one after another; the life' of the nation hung, indeed, on 9 thin thread, with its people seething, with resentment.
The Kuomintang, ever mindful, as has always been, of the mission entrusted to it by the Into leader, was for the moment apprehensive that it might not succeed in completing the Nationalist. Revelation; yet its effort was undeterred. Tu face of colossal difficulty, after having wiped out the armies of the two counter-revolutionists, Liu Chen-Thuan and Yang Hsi-min, it establish-led the Nationalist Government to carry on the high undertaking of the Revolution, the short space of two years, not only was South China unified, bat the provinces bordering on the Yangtze were also successively conquered by the Northern Expeditionary Armies; the influence of that Revolution has extended now es far en the Yellow River.
This amazing military could only be explained by the fact that the "Three People's Principles" and the other policies laid down our late leader have been so deeply. {mplained in the minds of the people, that they look forward to the success of the Nationalist Revolution with equal eagerness, as the people of a region parched by drought look forward to the all-soothing rain. The military success fa, indeed, the victory of Dr. Sun's principles made manifest.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.