FIGHT FOR POWER.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 89, 16 April 1927, Page 9

FIGHT FOR POWER.

STRUGGLE IN CHINA. Moderates' Action to Clear Out Bolsheviks. ARRESTS DEMANDED. -15j- Cable.—Press Association.— Coprristt.) (Received 10 a.m.) SHANGHAI, April 15. The Moderate Nationalists, styled the Central Control Committee, at Nanking, has reached an impasse with the Nationalist Government at Hanko-\Y. The committee, which is dominated by the Generalissimo, Chiang Kaishek, passed a resolution demanding the arrest of several Ministers at Hankow. The resolution also demanded the expulsion of Michael Borodin, the Soviet adviser to the Nationalists, and the arrest, as enemies of public order, of Borodin, George Hsu, Minister of Justice, Tan Ping-shen, Minister of Agriculture, Chen To-hsu and Teng Yen-ta, the latter allegedly Communist party leaders. The .committee's action followed the refusal of the men named to attend a Nanking Conference, called to settle differences within the party.

f,7 he c Cl ] ine ! e situation as it concerns the ifailffet iore f ners ; l las "cently resolved ™f J i a + s trugg e between the extremist and moderate factions of the Nationalists. rnntr«l f l '!? B ', who are in complete control at Hankow, demanded the dismissal ot General Chiang Kai-shek, the £ K Ion A i generalissimo, who is known to be the leader of the moderates. If the move against Chiang should succeed, the position m the International settlement at Shanghai would immediately become serious as there would then be no effective control over the extremists. If Chiang can consolidate his position sufficiently his intentions are to throw over the Communistic civil officials, amalgamate with Lhang Tso-bns Northernens and throw out the arch-priest of Sovietism, M Borodin It was stated that Borodin intended to defy arrest with a claim to United States citizenship, saving that he had been forced to flee from his Russian birthplace by the Czarist Government to America, where he became naturalised. He also claimed that his wife was an American citizen. As a matter of fact, Borodin, under the name of George Brown, was imprisoned for his Communist activities in Britain during the war. He is a Lettish Jew, whose real name is Micheal GrusenSerg.

CHIANG "A TRAITOR."

DENOUNCED FROM MOSCOW,

i Received 10 a.m.) MOSCOW, April 15.

m . The Communist Internationale has issued a manifesto declaring that Gen. Chiang Kai-shek is a traitor and an ally of Imperialists.

It declares that capitalist forces are unifying against the revolution and the Soviet.

The newspaper 'Travda" describes Unang Kai-shek as the centre of a counter revolution, who stands on the same plane as Chang Tso-lin at Shanghai Hls coup hag drawn a deep fliriw in the whole history of China's liberative struggle.

Communists will accept the challenge. (A. and N.Z. and Sydney "Sun.")