The Guardian And Evening Star, with which is incorporated the West Coast Times. THURSDAY, MAY 30, 1929. THE CHINESE EMBROGLIO.

Hokitika Guardian, 30 May 1929, Page 4

The Guardian And Evening Star, with which is incorporated the West Coast Times. THURSDAY, MAY 30, 1929. THE CHINESE EMBROGLIO.

In comieumn with die renewal of troaWt; ill Juina, English files by the uite&i, mail anumpaicu the recurrence 'HU Urn* gu.iv.ral unsetilemunt of the .to .miry. a iUimwiOle cmtf espondeni -* '-ne JiOiuion i.aily .Mail reported in ■»pri that Onna was again in turmoil, >vitli Boishevik Russia waiting beliind the scenes to proiit by her misfor.unes. . A new Communist drive, Highly organised and well financed by .Moscow, will lie the next phase of this endless revolution. Those who know the real China are not in the least surprised. The much advertised “conguost” of Peking by the Nanking armies of Chinng Kai-shek deceived no serious student of internal affairs. The western world believed in a lmzy way, that peace and unity were assured by the nominal reognition of the Nanking Government by other Chinese military leaders. The signing of certain treaties was hera.ded as proof of Chiang Kai-shek’s stability and competence. The optimists who accepted Nanking as the permanent capital of a united China forgot that Chinese generals do not change their characters overnight; that their predominant motive is personal ambition, and their predominant failing disloyalty. Chiang Ka-shek himself is fighting the armies of Hankow, and the Yangtse valley is once more in a dangerous condition of unrest. In the South, signs of independent action can be discerned at Canton. In the North, three of his alleged allies are evincing unmistakable signs of discontent with the new regime to which they have professed allegiance. Feng Yu-hsian, tliie socalled “Christian” General, while still nominally neutral, is ready to reestablish himself as a War .Lord south of Peking, with both eyes fixed on that ex-capital, which he once held. Cluing Gluing-ohang, the fierce despot of Shantung, is again harrying that province and threatening the European population of Cliefoo. The son of Chang Tsoi in, the late Dictator of Peking, who rules nominally as his father’s successor, is no less eager to he free of his nominal allegiance to the Sniilli. Even w’tlmut I lie new meiwe from Rie'sin.. the situation would h° '■•"lficentlv dis j pi’ , 'tin‘*. Reci"veil civil war prnn« d!s'o'“>li n of fnre’Vn trod", the los c of all !)>(> "round that has Heeu re ,v ained hv Pfifish commercial interests during , the past few months of ccmnarei ive j peace, and the danger to foreign lives j

and property. With M scow preparing to take full advantage of the new unrest, and lielj-ing by characteristic methods to Uklease it. the pr.spect lor Die ininicd.ate future is very grave. Russia. has never abandoned her de-s.gn-i on t liina. Siie realises the mistakes made in her lirst two campaigns k> comnmiri.se the coun.ry, and she is pro Ring i.y them. 'When i went to Jnina three.and a half years ago, continues tile torrcsp ndenl, her “Red” army was mit, a haiuinil of lanatieai young Oum.se studonts -at Canton, ..ail Ciliang ha -then as tlie'lr lender, ami tiie elnef to 1 of Jaiob Borodin, M .-scow’s trusted agent. 1 was assured by one of the Cant nese Communists in November i 920 .hat the “Rod” u niy would reach the Yangtze \ alley within a year. As a matter of fact it got there early the 10l owing summer .liter very li.L.e tigli.ing. Wlicn'J returned to China in November .1920 all tiie country between Canton and Han:t w uas “Red.” Hankow was full of “advisers” anil military e ports from .Moscow. Borodin was there himself iis eomniander-in-oliief. and Eugene Chen, the ex-British solici.or of Trinidad (now i.ving in Moscow), as his intermediary with the foreign Powers. The shameful story of the surrender of the British Concession at Hankow to B rod in and Chen is well known. But lor the despatch of the British Defence Force, the excesses committed .it Han .oil' won d have been repeated on a much greater scale at Shanghai when the O.niiiiunist forces arrived there ilist two years ag). Then came he reaction against Russia. Chang Tso-lin broke up the B Isherik headquarters at Peking and strangled some of the Chinese leaders. Borodin was recalled to Moscow in d.sgrnce. The other Russian advisers and propagandists scattered throughout China, numbering more than 500, were also brought back to Russia and many of .hern were sent elsewhere. Stalin and ii is corn ratios have again sot their eyes li. Asia, '1 hey are preparing a new propaganda offensive against Tndia fr nn the north and against China till* >ugh the usual channels. Destruction of the British Empire is the basic motive as always sums up the correspondent’s views of the Chinese embroglio.