The news which comes from the Haiclu-fung region is far from satisfactory. Little progress is, being made in a radical clearing out of the "Communist robbers," and still there is no safe travelling fon the majority of the roads. Recently the soldiers were temporal' ly withdrawn from an area in the north of the district, and. im= mediately the communists were back from their retreats, harrying the Villages after their usual fashion, and there has been a stampede for safety to the nearest protected centres. There is bitter criticism there, as in Swatow and other parts, of the utter inefficiency and corrupt tion of the fifth army, to which the destinies of the eastern half of the Province have been for the time committed. It is a bad blot General Li's administration of the province, the shoes the agitator wore, the soldier being barefoot,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.