The Archive · 1933

The Tasks Before Nanking

Resistance to Aggress One Remaining Nanking, Jan. 10.

Speaking at the weekly memo National Government yesterday, Mr, Vu Vu-jen, President of the Control Yuan, pointed out that of the three major [casks confronting the Government during the past. year—namely, resistance against foreign aggression, flood relief and suppression, of the Communist banditry—two had already been successfully accomplish-fed. "It remains now for the nation 0 accomplish the third and most dificult suppression, President Vu pointed out that thanks to the efforts of General Chiang Kai-shek, practically all of the Central China provinces had been cleared of the Red banditry, there being only the remnant marauders in Kiangsi, province. He said that there would be little difficulty in rounding up these remnant outlaws, President Vu also pointed out that tone of the most significant results of General Chiang's campaign was the conversion to the Kuomintang of large number of youths who bad been misled by the Red propaganda.

With regard to flood relief, he referred ¢0 the achievements of the National Flood Relief" Commission and the rehabilitation of the devastated Yangtze valley through construction of the dykes, Concluding, President Vu sat that the successful completion these two stupendous tasks may be taken as evidence of the Government's ability to cope also with [Japanese military aggression—Kuo

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