The Archive · 1937

Borodin Reported in China

Soviet Official Said to be at Lanchow Changchun, Feb, 1 Borodin, who, with i Blucher, then known Gon, Galen, advised' the Chines Nationalists in their victorious sweep north from, Canton ten, years ugo, in in China, the Kokutsu News Agency reported here to-day.

Accompanied by another igh Soviet official, M. Borodin, who now editor of The "Moscow Dally News," an English-language nows-paper, arrived In Lanchow rocontl travelling by way of Outer Mongollt the report said.

Tu the Kansu capital, the Kokuisu agency went on, the two events of "Comintern "have been, holding ly conferences with Mao Tse-tung, {coder °ot the Chinese Communist. Armies.

Meanwhile, Wang Ming, Moscow representative for the outlawed Chinese Communist Party, has rived in Sian, capital of Shensi Province, to direct a projected Red cam-Paiga throughout China, the report Arousing China This camp al to the agency, will be designed "to arouse all, China against Japan." The Com-mumist, slogans will be modified as to "fall in line with the ant Japanese policies of the Nanking Government," while the objectives fof the left wing National Salvation Movement will be tied up with the alms of the rightist elements, Special paing will be taken fo auld any reference to Communism or Ted {n= nonce, Kolsutsu said.

The primary objective in Shenst and Kansu, however, will be the Communization of the Yorces under the local warlords, so as to make their leaders, impotent, the report continued, This strategy," Kokutsu alleged, has been successfully used in Sinkiang where the provincial milltary chieftain had become a mere Agurehead. The policy is later to be extended to Charhar, Suiyunn and Shansi.

Chou Enlai, chairman of the mille tary affairs commission of the Chiin-Soviets, will have charge of the ug the Yangtze, while en will take over the direction of the activities In Shanghai, where th "Cultural National Salvation" groups will be used nucleus, Kokutsu reported—Domel,

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