Northern Cialition Leaders Denounced in Long Deeralation by C.E.C.: Held Responsible for Renewed Civil War Nanking, Aug. 12.
The Central Executive Committee of the Kuomintang issued Jast night a manifesto addressed to the people calling their attention to the calamitous effects of the Northern rebellion upon the future of the nation and exposing the designs of Wang Ching-wei and his followers, the so-called Reorganizationists.
The manifesto points out that the rebellion of the Northern militarists, by plunging the country into renewed civil strife and thereby obstructing the carrying out of the various reconstruction programmes by the National Government, has enormously aggravated and prolonged the sufferings of the people. ferring to the so-called "enlarged conference" at Peking, not only it without the slightest legal basis, but, attended as it is by 'a rabble of unscrupulous politicians and expelled Party members, it deserves the utmost contempt.
The manifesto cites evidence in proof of the fact that Wang Ching-wei is in secret alliance with the Communists and that it was mainly at his instigation and behest that the recent "Red" disturbances in Changsha were perpetrated.
In conclusion, the Central Executive Committee calls upon the entire people to rally to the support of the Government in ridding the country of the militarists and the servile tools of "Red" Imperialism in order that peace and national unification may be restored and the road to national prosperity opened out.
The following is a resume of the manifesto:—
The one and only means for the salvation of the nation lies in the alization—through the three suc-ye stages of military conquest, political tutelage and constitutionism,—of the Three People's Prinples propounded by the tate Party leader. The Party has therefore, wor since the northern punitive ex: pedition was brought to a success ful conclusion, adhered to the policy achieving peace and national vnifection so that various national reconstruction programmes may be carried out during the period of political tutelage and the founda-Yon for constitutional government aid. It is to the enforcement of hose' all-important schemes and the restoration of peace and prosperity inthe country that the Central Government and Party Authorities have been devoting their entire forts during, recent years, Regarsess, however, of the dire distress of the people, the Kuang Clique and the rebels Yen and Feng successively rebelled against the Central Government, They have thus not besit peace and unification so as tw carry on their peaceful "purmits without molestation, Having exhausted all attempt to avert the recrudescence of civil strife, the 1 Government was compelled inch the present expedition, for their extermination.
The entire National army, realise ing that the only way of" saving che people from the thraldom of militarism is the complete eradica tion of the rebels, have made light of their lives and never shrunk from the supreme sacrifice for the welfare of the people. As a result of their exertions, the rebels under Chang Fa-kuei, Huang Shao-hsiung and Li Chung-jen have been de cinively defeated and their remnant followers are now surrounded at Kueilin; crushing blows have also peen dealt to the Northern rebels, and the Government Forces are now pushing forward steadily along the Peking-Hankow, Lung-Hai and Kino-Tsi Railways." The day for the complete, liquidation of the rebellion is, therefore, not far of.
In an effort to rectify their military reverses by political activities, the Northern rebels have suddenly convened the so-called "enlarged conference" with a view not only to deluding but, also to hoodwinking the people, Wang Ching-wei, a shameless. deserter from the Party but still parading under the sign-hoard of the Kuomintang is also ing a desperate attempt to utilize the conference as the means ing the different camps of in waging a, joint way against the Party, The, s0- called "enlarged conference", it must be noted, has absolutely' no basis in the Party Constitution, As matter of fact,, the participants, ming of five different factions, moly (1) Feng Yuehsiang, (2)
Hsi-shan, (3) the Kuang Clique, (4) the Western Group and (5) the Reorsganizationists, ave either unscrupulous polit cians of expelled Party members, who have long been repudiated condemned by the people. While it ig true that some of these participants were once menibers vf the Gentra} Executive C: mmittee, they have all been expelled from the Party. t such men should still pose as loyal members of the Party ridiculous, It is this gathering of the debris and refuse of the country which both Yen Hsi-shan and Wang Ching-wei are bent on utilizing to further their sinister ends, What Wang Ching-wei mainly relies upon is the so-called Reorganizationist Faction, These' s0- called Reorganizationists are really Communists in disguise. Whatever their professed views may be, their main policy is to follow the directions of "Red" Imperialism and to take part in every mob disturbance in lorder to accelerate the Communist revolution, Tt is in pursuance of this policy that Wang Ching-wei has been utilizing the various opposing factions to create of chaos in the country.
Immediately following the arrival of Wang Ching-wei at Peking, the Communist outrages broke out in Changsha and the Communists in Kinngsi also intensified their activities, The people in the provin-cox of Hunan and Kiangsi were subjected to ruthless massacre and pillage. That Wang Ching-wei had instigated the disturbances is borne out by abundant evidence. In secret telegrams to Li Chung-jen, intercepted by the Government authorities, he instructed Chang Fa kuei to ally himself with the Com: munist. bandits in Hunan and Kiangsi, Both Feng Vu-hsiang and Wang Ching-wei are tools of Red Imperialism and the present bellion of the Northern militarists is merely creating opportunities for the Communists to carry out their sinister designs.
The Government deeply *regrets its failure to avert the disastrous Communist outrage at Changsha. 'At the present juncture when all the reactionary elements are cars ing on subversive activities against ment, the Party, mindful of its important mission, hereby pledges itself to exert its' utmost for the extermination alike of Communist bandits and Northern re-to the end that peace and national unification may be restored and national reconstruction carried hoped that all our com-will realize that until the Northern rebels are exterminated, complete removal of the Communist menace will be well-nigh impossi ble; and that they will rally to the support of the Government bringing the present punitive expedition to a speedy conclusion. Kuo Min,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.