It is said that Marshal Chiang hok is sending an army into Kiangsi in order to eradicate the forces of Mino and Chu, This has caused some anxiety in Kuangtung, because the "Red" army if driven out of Kiangsi will retreat, towards Canton. There are plenty of soldiers in the eastern and southern districts, yet ly appears doubtful whether they can resist the Red invasion should such a threat be materialized, Marshal Li Chi-sen's soldiers are decidedly poor fighters, not having gone through any real fighting, while the "Reds" are desperate and hungry.
Generals Chen Eh tang and Hsu Ching-tang are the two leading military commanders in Canton. Their combined forces may wipe out the "Reds" by outnumbering Unfortunately, there two men rivals and are working to under= mine each other. They are both subordinates of Li Chi-sen. authority over the committee and, indirectly, over control of the funds involved. The present income amounts to Gold $44,965 monthly, which is a sum that no Nationalist, to put it vulgarly, would sneer at. There are forty thousand job hunters in Nanking, where the grass is already pitifully short, any one of whom could with a tittle coaxing be made to accept the ad-of such a fund. The Government has not been indiscreet enough, however, to lay direct claim to the disposition of this money, but has been content to assert its "rights" in the matter by "reappointing" the members of the existing committee. It is sugested that the hope was that each would be flattered by the receipt of the important looking document confirming him in his. unsalaried and unrewarded post, and would acknosledze the appointment, thet by establishing Nanking's right to could, jscreet pause, com-make it. If this were done Nanking
nonce to remove its own appointees and put in some of the lean and hungry but loyal ones who would show the world how the proceeds of imperialistic tyranny should really: be spent in the light of the gorgeous dawn that is breaking over China.
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