Now a Formidable Exemy for Nanking Frost Our OWN Cosessroxpext Canton, July 15.
An ill-conceived policy is acting as a boomerang, striking back at Nanking according to Mr. Eugene Chen, Foreign Minister in Canton's Goverment. From hardly 10,000 rifles, the strength of the Kiangsi communists has been augmented, until they now are armed with 80,000 or more modern weapons, even eld artillery. To-day they are a formidable enemy, which the legions of Chiang Kai-shek have found more than a match, Fighting on their own ground, in positions of their own choosing Red army has been able to give a good account of itself, and. from reliable sources, Mr. Chen told your correspondent, come reports of re-Verses for the Nanking' regiments.
How it came about that the Reds were able to grow in strength unti they are a strong buffer, keeping the Nanking troops out of Kuangtung, at the same ti the strength of Chiang's men, said Mr. Chen, is an tale: literists were conquered by Chiang Kai-shek, and he took over their commands," but he could not, entirely rebuild these regiments so that entire reliance could be placed upon them.
Lest they make further trouble {in the future, the head' at Nanking! took to sending these troops into Kiangsi to fight the Soviets. Let the Reds kill off the untrustworthy. regulars, was the idea, and let the regulars' account for as many of the Reds as possible. This in nutshell was. Chiang's policy.
Neither the officers nor the men of these contingents have been fools, They have seen through it all, and have not relished extermination the least bit. Whenever they shave come in contact: with the communist forces, there has been more than an even chance that. they would join with their adver~ sary rather than seek to wipe him out.
This sloughing off of the anti-Communist expeditionary forces has been keeping on and on, and 4s the regular army has gene down the Reds have come up. Only now has Chiang Kai-shek begun to wake up and see the evil of his ways.
The hardiest troops, the most loyal, are being sent to-day to undo what' has been done, yet even not much is being ' accomplished. Since the Reds do not fight like an ordinary enemy but, strike and retreat, strike and retreat, their, foe must keep constantly on the 0 without ever catching up with thei body. So the soldiers! that Chiang Kai-shek now has in Kiangsi, are kept running around Tike a dog chasing its tail without having much more chance of attaining the object than the do has. Meanwhile Kuangtung is sitting back enjoying the spectacle, watehing Chiang's army disintegrate without having to expend a shot to bring it about,
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