Nanking, Sept. 26.
One battalion of the 1st Brigade of the 4th Division under Gene Chang Fa-kuei has been completely disarmed, and the Assistant Brigadier-Commander, the Battalion Commander, two Regimental Commanders, and over 2,000 soldiers captured by the Hunan Protincial Forces in northwestern Hunan, according to an official report from General Ho Chien, Chairman of the Hunan Provincial Government, received at the Commander-in-Chief's Ten Counts in Indictment The Manifesto enumerates ten counts in its indictment of the new Dictator:
The minimum desideratum of the Kuomintang is to establish an honest and clean Government. But under Chiang Kai-shek's dictatorship the greed and corruption of the officials are, if anything, worse than under the pre-revolutionary era of the Manchu regime: Bribety and embezzlement of public funds, the sale of offices and tax monopolies fare not only winked at, but encouraged, 2. To establish a Civil examination system and gradually fo extend the rights of election and Kuomintang programme. But under Chiang Kai-shek's Government, the minor officials are mostly relatives of the high political official the latter are mostly the henchmen and relatives of the neo-Militarists. To buy and sell office is not looked upon as shameful.
3. To prohibit excessive taxa. tion, to abolish miscellaneous levies.
Government. A public accounting of Government finances is even more essential. But Chiang Kai-shek has monopolized the finances of the Central Government in order to satisfy his personal extra-valance. When money rans short, bonds are issued recklessly. Since hhis return to power last year, the total tond and loan issues have At the present rsoment he Is again using the pretext of Military Disbandment to issue another loan of $70,000,000. It is a foregone conclusion that these millions will either be used for internecine warfare or go to fill private pockets.
The Need of a Budget jon crossed _the Hunan-Hupeh border on the 22nd instant reaching the Tamongsban-Wangchiatu region on the same evening. On the following morning, the rebel units advanced on Tzel and Yunghsun when the 52nd Divi sion under General Wu Shang and the 9th Brigade under Commander: Li Wen-hong, who were stationed in the vicinity and had been previously informed of Chang's approach, attacked the insurgents. Following' a brief engagement, the entire 23rd Battalion of the 4zh Division surrendered and was subsequently disarmed—Kuo Min.
Moreover ever since the establishment of Chiang's Government, the public revenues must have amounted hundreds of millions of dollars.
Yet no Budget has been fixed, and no accounts of disbursements have been made public. And the accounts of the Commander-in-Chief's Headquarters are even less fit for public examination.
Tu the North, the famine-stricken number a much as 50,000,000 people. Yet no succour can be rendered to them owing to the national financial exhaustion.
4. - The people cannot be deprived of their rights and liberties except in accordance with the law. This is clearly laid down in' the Party's) programme. But ever since the Establishment of Chiang Kai-shel's Government, there have numerous cases of illegal murder! and illegal confiscation to satisfy the blocd-thirst and appetite of the greedy "and corrupt officials Under the going of Party Government, a Personal Dictatorship has teen established. None of these actions can be permitted under} the doctrine of Popular Rights.
5. The late Leader (Dr. Sun) advocated the policy of Disbandment in order to curb the militarists and lighten the people's burden. But Chiang Kai-shek has ued the pretext of Disbandment to plunder the people's wealth on the one hand, and to disband the troops of those] not of his own following so as to Consolidate his own personal position, He has secretly purchased large consignments of arms to organize a. Special Model Army, after the manter of Yuan Shih-ka plot to seize the country is plain as das
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