Referring to this same question of the December revolt, Comrade Tsehen Kuang explained the as follows:
"The December uprising in Cant was a heroic protest of the tolling masses in the period of the defeat the revalutinn. "There were, however, many organic' and. military. mistakes fand shortcomings to be recorded on nevertheless opens up a new evolution in Cina. Tes sal significance is indispt:
"The uprising itself ended.
lat the Soviet established by ers," peasants, soldiers and city pour in Canton, under the Ship of the proletariat, the Sovi concerning which the broadest masses support Ware even comrades who sought to! pute. the importance due to this political advantage, claim now that they are in ce-operation with Soviot Russia and the Communist International, they am: repudiated by name.
6. The Communists repudiate Sunyatsenism and are attacking all the conceptions which arise therefrom in.their literature, 7. Although the Kuomintang has used violently repressive means to destroy ths Communist Party of China and its ally, the Young Communist League, both claim me creases in membership in official statements made at the Congness of the Communist International, The Peasants Starve This article has offered no re putation to the arguments, figurea and statements effortd by the Communists, because its purpose was to set forth their attitude and claims, There are inaccuracies and exaggerations and the name of such Chinese as Strakhov and Pionecroff are undoubbrdly fictitious, so that one wonders who these apparently representative Communists really are. But the ceasential fact reinaing that the Communists are working among thd PeaeeUttthe_pesena ary are. ing and' Nanking is squander money, which might. bottor spent in making the lives of the peasants livable, which is the only have been thrown away by retreating and deserting troops—Min Tuan movements such as the Big Sword and the Red Spears have aimed villagers—the Min Chun, the People's Army, had been organized in the course of the Northern Expedi tion. Thoro are places to-lay where treens cannot enter a village without the consent of the village elder, lest there be shooting and sniping, and there are other places, where the soldiers join the peasants in mutinies. These facts are earcfully suppressed but they come to be known and Comrade Schiller refers to them in his phrase "rery Soviets and self-govern-
This peasant village autonomy movement is spreading throughout North China; it has already made the Ist Army Group fairly impotent and it is writing a dark chapter in the history of the Kuominehun's lion of the Northwest. Whe-
'a, peasant is called a Commun-or a bandit or a Moslem or a counter-revolutionary, the effect of this movement is everywhere the sume, Thio constitutes the central politico' movement to-day and only the Communist Party is making efforts to capture and to lead it. The Kuomintang is baffled and frightened. It can only meet this situation by moving armies into Anhui and by proclamations to the people, urging them not to listen to subversive propaganda. Tt describes every unfavourable circumstance a Smporialistic efforts to keep China divided. The Communists, are more clever and realistic. ' They sock the facts and use them to strengthen their cause,
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