The Archive · 1926

South China Under Red Rule

Both Kuangtung and Kuangsi Bolshevized: Visible Dismay of Merchants: Power of Strikers' Union and the Money They Make: Bolshevism a Mere Fashion with Most Br W, Leones Cure The whole of the two Southern provinces of South China, Kuangtung and Kuangsi, are now under Red Rule, and by Red Rule mean under a so-called Republican form of Chinese government, which Bolsh ators, who call them-in entirely in the hands of Russian selves rs." But they know] and the Chinese know and know that the term "advisors" is to it that the Government in South China is too deeply debt to them to be able to throw them off at a word.

Furthermore the Labour Union and the Students' Union are willing in their hands, and with these to make it appear that the two provinces are entirely with them, and delighted with the present state of affairs. They are at the.old trick of dressing up the shop window (Canton) while behind the shop window, everything is desolation and ruin, The country is still swarming with robbers, the rivers with pirates, the merchants are facing bankrupted and would give all they] Possess for a stable government. What care they about "unequal treaties," or any other—political catchword They want peace and safety and protection.

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