Jan. 8.
A variety of very interesting news reaches us to-day respect ing the Red Kuomintang and Chinese. Bolshevists in South China, According to a corr pondent in Canton, the projected New Year conference of the Kuomintang failed to come off for want.of a quorum: the Po. king Kuomintang, he says, are by way of being White, the Canton members are.now wholly Red and each side denounces the other as illegal. A week later, according to the Eastern News Agency, the conference came off in Canton. Members of the Kuomintang from all parts of China are said to have been present Such resolutions as the following were adopter An alliance with Soviet Russia all be effected with sincerity for purpose of undermining im-
'A. great effort shall be made to act in ce-operation with the oppressed races in order that they may be rescued, Later on we are told, a telegram ut to Moscow in which is eagerly hoped that Soviet Russia will continue its efforts rescue oppressed race: "Chinese, male and female, have resolved to act in unison with Soviet Russia" to overthrow impenalism; and the ultimate aim is "to achieve the projected national revolution of China and to expedite the revolution of the whole world." Meanwhile, at Swatow, Chou En-lai, a leading Chinese Bolshevist, enlarges on the war on Hongkong and promises other "imperialist" nations—which seems to mean all except Russia—that their turn will come as soon as Great Britain done with, The first emotion on reading this sort of thing is one of utter bewilderment. Who are "the oppressed races" whom it is necessary to rescue?—Nobody Greams of oppressing the Chinese that we know of: on the contrary, there are two conferences of representatives of so-called imperialist. Powers, sitting or about to sit in Peking, doggedly determined to do what they can under most discouraging cit cumstances to meet Chinese wishes on treaty revision. Even if we take the affair of May 30, opinions may differ as to. the necessity for the shooting, but there is no doubt in any reasonable man's mind that was done in the sincere conviction that the peace and preservation of Shang hai, in which Chinese interests enormously exceed foreign, required it. Again, what is this maggot of "imperialism"? Not one of the so-called imperialist Powers desires an inch of Chinese territory nor shows the slightest indication of trying to get any special advantage in this country. In marked contrast, the very Power, which is held up as a pattern, and appealed to continue her work of "rescuing oppressed races" is the one'glar. ing example of land-grabbing and privilege-seeking in China to-day. In these respects Bolshevik Russia is exactly the same in foreign policy as Tsarist Russia was, only pursuing her ends by different means. Mongolia, for example, figures on the Chin: ese republican flag in the blue stripe, but in fact it should not be there at all as it is simply a Russian province, Since the agreement which gave control of the Chinese Eastern Railway int" Bolshevik hands and in utter defiance of its terms, the Soviet management hate been filling practically all posts with Russians, And in what country in the world has any alien Power requited the illicit position of dominance that Moscow holds in South China to-day?
These facts are perfectly well understood by the vast majority
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