Docanent containing notes concerning Communist acti not been by any means sailing for the Commu even in these districts whet they have taken root. Correspondence reveals how the sharp differ-fences between the Li Li-san faction of the Party and the Orthodox faction—differences which correspond with those which led to the spilt in Russia between the Trot skyites and the Stalinites—have indeed the plans of the Rei Teaders. In some districts, notably Fukien, the two parties have been at open warfare.
Many interesting sidelights are thrown upon the act Soviet districts by have been seized by the Police. The following extract from one of them: Se typical, revealing. something, of the methods employed against Government troops in Hupeh:
Sty army' Into the ity (Biv Behue) and "The enemy is definitely withdrawing attack constantly the enemy. intensify Jour propaganda amongst the soldiers Organige a mutiny of the soldiers (he soldiers are politically very influenced, they and dono patriotic Feeling and the organisation for causing Jmatines ie lacking, mo great niutinies Rave been effected yet.) "The mood of the. masses. is. always' very" good, the masses in. there regions where' formerly Hed districts were: but which are no' taken by the enemy alwa the advantages of the So nent, therefore our work. tion tins the White istrict Only: the masses are Red want. to rely on the ranigation devel inthe streggie our rely, that is fect. which we, remedy with all Methods to. be employed widening the Soviet authority are Jeontained in instructions issued the Soviet in the same district. [Summarised these instructions are:—
12 of agricultural workers must be Tm—Attract female workers to active! work im the Soviet Judging from other reports and instructions the workers in the field did not always meet with the success their leaders anticipated. There is. Jan urgent instruction, for instance, that the tendency of agricultural Nabourers to abandon their unions just as they have been given land their own, showing a deplorable fack of enthusiasm for communist principles due to their inclination to become "bourgeois" immediately. they become landed proprietors, must checked at all costs. This little confession that the communist drive has often been used by persons for their on ends and to the confusion lof communism is supported by the native report of a work in Shanghai's industry that women attended his meetings with enthusiasm so ong a3 they were paid a dollar a meeting, bat when this payment ceased, refused to attend In_ exch Soviet district there appears to have been several foreign advisers, and the work in industrial Jareas also seems to have been.examined and supervised by foreigners. Throghout the documents released there appear the names of Pioneer, Kennedy, Spiridondy, Brinski, Kommunal,"Moskwin, Golubien, and others, These foreigners appear to have been regarded as key men by their Chinese colleagues. In each district, also, there is a radio station lby means of which touch is kept [with headquarters. And, owing to the separation of the districts from centres of supply, a network of communications, with confidential on railways, and Jalong principal highways has been built' up, "These confidential agents not only carry messages and fo
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