Wherever it comes it finds large Jocal support waiting for it, or the way is prepared for local risings of the "peasants! armies". The city of Chaoyang is seriously threatened still; every night bombs explode in various parts of the city; and every day people from the city and the surrounding region are flocking for refuge to Swatow. In the Puni istrict there have been repetitions of the ghastly doings that have characterized the movement to the further west. To one small town the terms of surrender offered were that all the inhabitants over 60 and under 15 should be Killed, and when the town was taken small children were stamped to death and indiscriminately massacred.
The military authorities report a general retreat of the Communi in that region before the troops, but one does not give a ready credence to military reports.
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