Towards the end of January, Communists numbering around 60,- }000 under Chu Teh and Mao Tse-tung made a desperate attempt to Jcapture Fuchow, 180 li south-east of the provincial capital.
Jeapturing Kinki, 80 li east of Fuchow, they met a stubborn resistance' by the Sth Division under the. command of General Chow Huan-yuen, On account of the poor cgamanications due, tthe, cold weather, the governmen 8 lors of the loth and 20th Armies in Fuchow were unable to send reinforcements, as a result the Sth Division suffered rather a big reverse, Fortunately the 18th Army under General Chen Cheng and the 26th Army under General Sun Lion-chung arrived in time to check the Red advance on Fuchow. In Hsuwan, 40 Li south-east of Fuchow, the government troops had a severe Jencounter with the Reds a few days ago. As a result the Communists retreated in the direction of Tzeki fon the Fukien-Kiangsi border Jeaving thousands of dead bodies on the field, On January 30, General Chiang Kai-shek arrived in Nanchang for the purpose of suppressing" the Communist-bandits. The "people here are overwhelmed with joy and gave him the most hearty welcome Nanchang has ever given. "All the streets were decorated with Posters fof welcome. and every store had a pair of red lanterns hanging in the front of their gate. of people gathered on the sidewalks fand bowed to him. 'The route from the railway station to his head: ter in the provineal Science Hall was closely' guarded, arrival the military" commanders fave been arriving daily from the front for instructions. 'The general Plan is that' General Chiang" will soon order & general attack against the Rede from all sides, On February 1, a mass meet of the citizens was held in the Tel Sheng theatre where several thou sands of people were present and a umber of important resolutions passed, the chief of which are, first, to ask General Chiang" Kai shek to stay in Nanchang until the complete eradication of the Reds in Kishgat and secondly, 9) promise the full support of the peop! 'The resolutions were' presented. him, Yesterday" at the round-table conference which General Chiang held with the delegates of the citizens at his headquarters. He promised to remain here as long as three months to complete his work, Otherwise he continued, the Cen-Government and. the whole would be in great internal er. Furthermore to show their hearty ce-operation with the Government. in the work of suppressing the bandits, the leaders of Nanchang organized a Kiangsi movement. to save the country by means of aviation and a general financial campaign to, raise fund ili for more aeroplanes will be started oon.
The Chicago Exposition The Kiangsi provincial authori. ties, tu order to restore and expand
send a delegation headed by Mr. its "foreign, trade, have, decided to 'Chow 'Kwang-hung, formerly' Commissioner of Reconstruction, with several hundred boxes of the products. of Kiangsi for exhibition in Chicago next summer, including porcelain," camphor-wood black and green tea, curios, silk, Jgrass cloth, ete. Before they are shipped to' America by way of Shanghai, there will be an exhibi tion in the Reconstruction Burea here for a week beginning on February 5.
Despite the great scare from the Red advance on Fuchow, 180 south-east of Nanchang and the government decrees prohibiting the feelebration, the people here have jeelebrated the lunar New Year, on an even greater scale than ever before since the establishment of the Nationalist Government in Nanking. Commercial as well as personal accounts were settled: shops closed; fire-crackers set off day and night, Children play. with paper lanterns of various. shapes everywhere and every one is dress-in gay colours. Although today is the 8th day of the first moon, lots of stores remain closed and will' not be reopened until February 16.
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