Northwestern Militarists Roundly Denounced: Their Fear of Disbandment and Rebellion to Authority The following statement exposing the Northwestern rebellion is issued by the Publicity Department of the Central Executive Committee of the Kuomintang:
Its references to enforced opium growing are particularly interesting, in view of the abuse levelled at foreign speakers at Geneva who have, in the past, made the same charge, and more recently the American Red Cross Committee's report on the famine.
Nanking, Oct. 16.
"Once again as a corollary of the impending execution of Military Disbandment, not unlike the Kuansssi Rebellion, the truculent warlords of the last feudalistic stronghold, the Northwest, have started to plot against the Central Government with a deliberate view to rthwest famine, (3) unjust appropriation of public funds, (4) Aeliberate attempt to reduce' their litary force, (5) diverting public nition from internal affairs by staging a diplomatic crisis, and s0 forth.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.