China's new Crisis by Anna Louise Strong

Author:Anna Louise Strong
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Fore Publications Ltd
Published: 1942-05-15T00:00:00+00:00

The Chinese Communist Case

A spokesman of the Revolutionary Military Committee of the Chinese Communist Party in an interview granted at the end of January to the New Press, a Yenan publication, outlined the new tactics which the Chinese Communists have adopted to meet the situation provoked by the attacks upon the New Fourth Army.

He declared that present developments are only a “continuation on a broader scale of the anti-Communist activities which have been going on for a long time.” The leaders of the pro-Japanese elements, who still occupy a high position in the Chinese Government and the Kuomintang – the Chinese Nationalist Party which controls the Government – are actively carrying out the orders of the enemy to provoke civil war in China in order to utilise the Chinese themselves to defeat the anti-Japanese movement. Thus the rear of the Japanese armies would be fortified and the Japanese would have successfully attained their aim of conquering all China, before pushing southward.

Declaring that the reactionaries are not only planning further actions against the New Fourth Army, but also against the Eighth Route Army and the Communists as a whole, the spokesman of the Revolutionary Military Committee outlines the plans of the pro-Japanese agents (Ho Ying-chin, Minister of War; General Ku Chu-Tung, Commander of the Third War Zone, responsible for the massacre of the New Fourth Army people, etc.) as follows:

“1. To start a propaganda movement in the papers, stressing the importance of obeying military orders and discipline, thus preparing the way for carrying-on a civil war.

“2. To destroy the New Fourth Army in Southern Anhwei, declaring it in revolt against the Central troops, abolish the title of the Army.

“3. To assign Tang En-po, Li Yen-sen, Wang Chung-lin, Han Teh-chun and others as commanders of the anticommunist armies, with Li Tsung-yen[1] as the highest commander. Their first action is to attack the New Fourth Armies in Southern Anhwei. If this action succeeds, they are to push forward, closely co-operating with the Japanese armies, and attack the Eighth Route and the New Fourth Armies in Shantung and North Anhwei districts. (These steps have already been started).

“4. To seize any possible pretext so as to pave the way to declaring the Eighth Route Army in revolt, to take away its title and order the arrest of its commanders, Chu Teh and Peng Teh-huai.[2] These steps are already in secret preparation.

“5. To disband the offices of the Eighth Route Army in Chungking, Sian and Kwellin, arrest Chou Enlai, Yeh Chieng-ying, Tung Pei-wu and Têng Yung-chiao.[3]

“6. To close the organ of the Chinese Communist Party, the Hsin Hua Jih Pao.

“7. To attack the Shensi–Kansu–Ninghsia Border Region; capture Yenan.[4]

“8. To arrest all anti-Japanese elements in Chungking and other places; destroy the anti-Japanese movement.

“9. To destroy the Communist Party and its organisations and arrest Communists on a broad scale.

“10. Japan to withdraw its armies from Central and South China, while the Chungking Government immediately declares the restoration of the lost territories. At the same time popularise the desirability of a glorious peace with the enemies.

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