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Nanking Break With South Laid to Economic Rivalry; Secret Japanese Aid Charged Kwangsi Generals Move Against Chiang as Revenues Fail Currency an Issue Tokyo Agents Said to Be Training and Equipping Military Force By a Staff Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor NANKING--Writing about relations between Nanking and the refractory Southern provinces at this time, mid-June, is rather like trying to take a time exposure of something which refuses to stay still. Yet, however blurred the resultant picture, it may be worth while, perhaps, to sketch briefly the background of the present dispute. Only for short periods since the 1911 revolution have Kwangtung and Kwangsi accepted without question the authority of the recognized central government of China. For several years past they have carried on in a state of semi-independence, paying heed to Nanking only when it suited their convenience. All moves towards closer unification have ended in failure. Reapprochement Fails Canton's elder statesman, Hu Han-min, had always been bitterly opposed to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's regime and it was predicted that his passing on May 12 would pave the way for a reapprochement. But all such hopes melted before the vehement opposition of Gen. Pai Chung-hsi, the fiery young Muhammadan who is associated with Gen. Li Tsung-jen in the administration of Kwangsi province. Both Pai and Li played prominent parts in the military campaign which preceded the establishment of the nationalist government at Nanking in 1928. In recognition of this they were given the control of Hupeh province, with headquarters at Hankow. Difficulties with Chiang Kai-shek soon arose, however, and in the spring of 1929 the generallissimo's armies drove them back to their native province. Army Well Equipped Since then the two Kwangsi leaders have nourished a seemingly implacable hostility toward Chiang and all his works. Men of outstanding ability, they launched a highly successful effor to convert backward, improvished Kwangsi into a model province. Pai was chiefly responsible for the scheme and under his dierection an efficient administration, a well-equipped army and an ingenious militia system was gradually built up. Early in June the long-standing enmity between the Kwangsi leaders and Chiang Kai-shek suddenly flared up into military action, thinly disguised as an "anti-Japanses expedition," though widely interpreted as a difect challenge to the central government. Complicated politico-financial motives lay behind this move. Lost Opium Traffic Revenues For 20 years and more Kwangsi has derived its revenues chiefly from the transit taxes levied upon shipments of semiraw opium transported through the province from neighboring Kweichow and Yunnan to Canton. This luctative traffic was lost about a year ago when the extension of Chiang Kai-shek's control over Kweichow and Yunnan resulted in the diversion of these opium shipments to Hankow. In an effort to make up the deficit the Kwangsi authorities permitted the growing of poppy in their own territory, but the provincial coffers still remained in a sad state of depletion. Dufficulty has also arisen over
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Original index title | b01n02p251 |
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Full-Text | Nanking Break With South Laid to Economic Rivalry; Secret Japanese Aid Charged Kwangsi Generals Move Against Chiang as Revenues Fail Currency an Issue Tokyo Agents Said to Be Training and Equipping Military Force By a Staff Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor NANKING--Writing about relations between Nanking and the refractory Southern provinces at this time, mid-June, is rather like trying to take a time exposure of something which refuses to stay still. Yet, however blurred the resultant picture, it may be worth while, perhaps, to sketch briefly the background of the present dispute. Only for short periods since the 1911 revolution have Kwangtung and Kwangsi accepted without question the authority of the recognized central government of China. For several years past they have carried on in a state of semi-independence, paying heed to Nanking only when it suited their convenience. All moves towards closer unification have ended in failure. Reapprochement Fails Canton's elder statesman, Hu Han-min, had always been bitterly opposed to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's regime and it was predicted that his passing on May 12 would pave the way for a reapprochement. But all such hopes melted before the vehement opposition of Gen. Pai Chung-hsi, the fiery young Muhammadan who is associated with Gen. Li Tsung-jen in the administration of Kwangsi province. Both Pai and Li played prominent parts in the military campaign which preceded the establishment of the nationalist government at Nanking in 1928. In recognition of this they were given the control of Hupeh province, with headquarters at Hankow. Difficulties with Chiang Kai-shek soon arose, however, and in the spring of 1929 the generallissimo's armies drove them back to their native province. Army Well Equipped Since then the two Kwangsi leaders have nourished a seemingly implacable hostility toward Chiang and all his works. Men of outstanding ability, they launched a highly successful effor to convert backward, improvished Kwangsi into a model province. Pai was chiefly responsible for the scheme and under his dierection an efficient administration, a well-equipped army and an ingenious militia system was gradually built up. Early in June the long-standing enmity between the Kwangsi leaders and Chiang Kai-shek suddenly flared up into military action, thinly disguised as an "anti-Japanses expedition," though widely interpreted as a difect challenge to the central government. Complicated politico-financial motives lay behind this move. Lost Opium Traffic Revenues For 20 years and more Kwangsi has derived its revenues chiefly from the transit taxes levied upon shipments of semiraw opium transported through the province from neighboring Kweichow and Yunnan to Canton. This luctative traffic was lost about a year ago when the extension of Chiang Kai-shek's control over Kweichow and Yunnan resulted in the diversion of these opium shipments to Hankow. In an effort to make up the deficit the Kwangsi authorities permitted the growing of poppy in their own territory, but the provincial coffers still remained in a sad state of depletion. Dufficulty has also arisen over |
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