After being besieged for a long time by Communists under Chu eh, and Mou Chi-tung, the city of Kanchow was relieved on the 22nd instant. The Communists are retreating northward in 2 directions from Shinkuo and Hsinfeng.
The Provincial Government has issued a proclamation offering $50,000 reward for the arrest of Chit and Mou alive and, $80,000 for them dead.
There are at present four Chinese gunboats patrolling along the Han River to assist the Government troops to suppress. bandits-—Kuo 'Travellers Kept Back Nanking, Mar. 26. to the Ministry of dated March 23, the Kiangsi Provi ial Government' ad-isos that, during the period of bandit suppression, no passport should be issued to foreign travel-plot is as follows: A young man, the hero, starts out to fight the forces of capitalism und to _hu-smaller consequence than the wheel of a machine, crushed by the very power he tries to crush, Tt is a very simple theme, but, as may be imagined, could be adapted to fit all manner of ways of looking at the machine and the present era of capi industry. These plays have attracted thousands on thousands, and big cinema companies, like the Nikkatsu. Film Corporation for instance, are encouraging the writing and production of such play.
The authorities, on the contrary, are rather perturbed over then plays, some of which rejoice in such titles as: "People Who Dance on the Line of Death" and "The Modern Woman-Eating Dragon'—both of which represent the ma. chine in the worst possible light.
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