The Archive · 1926

A Second Letter

In the second letter written after the visit of delegates from the Mar i return from Chinchow to. Afukd ang, stresses the need for reduction of troops to a number sufficient fur defence, and reduction ut the output of the ars money ro saved to be applied enterprises 1€ this volley were accepted he would to consider resumption of He deplores that the Te had b for nyone, foreign ur Chinese, to leave house after dark. What the! ive inhabitants suitored is past Robbery und sheer wanton: ter aire said to have been ost unnoticed. that not mount to ming] one's own death warrant, while to carry a bundle which looked though it might contain something! lootable was equivalent to vitation to any passing soldier to shoot you.

People were shot for their clothes on their backs and not only shot but mutilated in a shocking ner.

Where twant bree is required. Pureha: now be made for a few days for millions, ial.

The literature supplied to the Kuominchun troops was Bolshevism pure and simple. Many thousands of booklets were taken from the

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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