CHINESE TROUBLE.

Hokitika Guardian, 30 April 1927, Page 3

CHINESE TROUBLE.

[by TEI,EGIIAI’H —rER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] A GERMAN CRITICISM. BKKLIX, April 2D. Doctor Rosenberg, a university lecturer and a member of the Reichstag, in explaining his resignation from the Communist. Party, declared that there had been a breakdown of the Third International in China, following a defeat in Knglad. This showed that the orgaisation of the Internatioal l.ahour Movement required a drastic revision. These defeats were due to fundamental errors of its system. The Soviet of Russia, he said, rested upon a compromise, between the skilled Russian worker and the peasant owner. The Russians, therefore, should be the natural allies of national freedom movements abroad, but the non-Rus-sian communists were forced to rely on the poorest, uncompromising, anti-na-tional sections of the Labourites, which caused intolerable contradictions and failures. The effort of trying simultaneously to work with the British Trades Union Congress, Mr Cook (British Miners’ Secretary), the* bourgeois, the Kuomintang, and the Shanghai workers was bound to bring "disaster. The Third International was seriously damaging Soviet Russia and the Labour Movement abroad, and it should dissolve.

WITHDRAWAL FROM CHINA. LONDON, April 29

Tile “Daily Mail's” Riga correspondent states: “The International lias ordered the suspension of all propaganda in China. They have closed their Harbin office, and have transferred their organisation to Irkutsk, Siberia, from which place Moscow's agents will in future be instructed.