How Miners of Pinghsiang and Half a Million Dollars in Six Railwaymen Carry on Months But More Supplies Theie Work Apparently Stopped A resident wko knows intimately' the country between Changsha and the present day Communists hope to places beyond. It is probably three} years since tke first glimmerings of the Soviet doctrine illumined that area, and this occurred at the Pinghsiang mines. These are owned by} the Hanyekping Corporation. but since the workers commenced Soviets of their own, it is Vikely that the owners hav. profit from the venture or any control over it, Pinghsiang is import ant to the southern branch of the Peking-Hankow Railway.—From Wachang a line of the railway runs south to Changsha, and then turning] almost at right angles eastwards, carries on as far as. Pinghsiang, Naturally, therefore, the collieries} at Pinghsiang supply the coal for this section of the line.
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