The plans for the suppression of the Communiat-bandits seem to be going sadly wrong. So far the re ports suggest that the Government's operations have made very little impression on the Communists. Indeed the news of the surrender of a large body of Government reaps to the rebels confirms the view that the date fixed for the completion of the suppression has been wisely extended. In South Kiangsi the Communists have gained considerable ground; they have established a solid link—through Kuangtung and Kuangst with Yunnan where points of contact the disturbed border of Indo-
China provided further scope for Communist activity, Moreover in the alley of the Middle Yangtze the Communists seem to be again in the position which they had reach-edwin the middle of last year when they were threatening to encircle area of which Hankow is the centre. The action promised by General Chiang Kai-shek seems to be urgently needed.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.