Increasing Influence in Remoter Parts of Province Hankow, Sune 22, Diaquieting news continues to falter through of the activities of Communists in the more remote parts of Hunan and though the Military authorities endeavour Suppress the news as much as: possible there is no doubt but that, The Communist ranks are con. tinually beng swelled by the turning over, of disaffected soldiery. A Targe number of these malcontents fare former soldiers of General Chen Chien, who is still being held prisoner here, While there have of wholesale atrocities, Occurred some months ago in Lai-yang and. Chenchow, there is in-Ereasing evidence that the Hunan Reds are daily becoming better organized, fu the districts South of Hengehowlu the Communists nov issue their own banknotes in Various denominations in the name fof the "Soviet Republic of China." The notes are adorned with pictures of Lenin and Karl Marx. Accord ing to word just received from a missionary in the Hengchow District the peasantry are forced to accept these notes at par under pain of being Killed by the Communists, while if the notes are found in their possession by the soldiers oceasion-Billy sent against the Communists the holders are promptly executed as being Communists themselves, The problem of the disbanding of large humpers of surplus troops, following the cessation of hostilities the North, which now confronts the Wuhan Political Council, and the ever-present threat of the Com munist movements in Hunan and other parts of the Central Provinces, into the ranks of which he discharged soldiers. will inevitably drift, is one that cannot Lo Tightly' overlooked. Plans are already on foot for the conversion of hose surplus soldiery into industrial labourers, but no definite scheme o: faction has yet been decided upon. This latter phase of the work of zeeonstruction will be the most dificult of the many confronting the authorities, for though it is an easy' matter to turn tens of thousands of soldiers into labourers,
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