The Archive · 1935

Army Not Satisfied

A wholly different view of the report was taken by a spokesman for the Military Attaché's office, in an Interview with Rengo. "The vehemlence of the denial, prominently displayed by all Chinese newspapers under what seems to us as an order {from the Kuomintang, makes us have doubts," he said. "If the suppress sion of the Communists by Gen. Chiang is going so smoothly as is aimed, why do the Nanking authorities take such rumours so seriously? It the rumours were untrue, why not let them die a natural death, most things of that kind are likely to dor"

Changing Views Shanghai, Sept. 30.

Chinese denials of the existence of pro-Communist sentiments in the high councils of the Nanking government are "meaningless" so. long as reparations to adopt the Soviet pattern of administration are made in this country by the maintenance of a party autocracy similar to. that, Prevailing in the USSR, This was the statement attributed to Maj.-Gen, Rensuke Isogai, Japanese, Military "Aitaché in China, by local Japanese press yesterday.

Asked for his views on the press denial of rumours that Gen. Chiang) certain faction of high officials in Nanking were advocating an alliance with Russia, the officer was quoted fas having said that the "surprise the Chinese authorities at the rumours and their efforts to stamp out reports that nature indicate chat there is something to them."

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