River of Blood

Meticulously a commission sent by Chinese President Chiang Kai-shek into Kiangsi Province reported last week on the recent massacre in Kiangsi Province of 100,000 persons in a period of six weeks. Excerpt:

"The Kan Kiang River literally ran red with blood and dead bodies were piled mountain high. . . . One hundred and twenty-four thousand houses were burned, and 300,000,000 silver dollars worth of property destroyed."

This massacre is the best reason for (also the best reason against) the stupendous loan which the U. S., Britain and Canada may make to the Chinese Nationalist Government. Obviously the credit of a nation in which so monstrous a holocaust can occur is not good. But who massacred 100,000 Chinese?

Not the Nationalist Government, but the so-called "Reactionaries Suppression Commission." What is that? Financed but not entirely directed from Moscow, the R. S. C. is the coordinating Chinese General Staff of at least a dozen Chinese Communist armies. Once they were called "bandits." Today they are laying waste whole hinterlands, wiping out whole civic populations, sowing chaos and Communism on a scale of which even Lenin scarcely dreamed.

Last week a portion of the Eighteenth Nationalist Army Division under General Chang Chi-tsan was entirely surrounded by Communist forces in Kiangsi, faced annihilation according to despatches from Shanghai.

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