Red's Firm G of Large Areas: Hard Task for Gover Nanking, Jan. 13.
Definite steps for the enforcement of the regulations governing the general amnesty "for political offenders have been taken by the Ministry of Judicial Administration MERCE war is being waged by Government bandit suppress sion forces against the Communists of southern Kiangsi, with varying fortunes.
The efforts of the divisions on the spot appear to have driven the Reds back into their stronghold: Dut the task remaining before the suppression is complete is still enormous, and the situation is fraught with grave danger. The, present. struggle is concentrated upon the Fourth Red Army under the notorious Chx Teh, a student returned from Germai His followers number considerably more than 4,000 well-trained and equipped men, not reckoning the transitory following. of.farmer bandits, and he has been for long the terror, of the Fukien-Kiangsi border. With him has been acting the Sixteenth Red Army in southern Kiangsi. Their programme thas been to burn all government buildings and records in each town tuken.and destroy all title deeds, All members of the *ocal Tangpus have been shot without mercy, and foreign property, schools, churches, etc., have been demolished. Gapitalists wherever they have been taken have been slaughter-and their goods distributed.
Hankow, Jan, 15.
Agcording to, a, message Changsha, commerial_ pedi are agreed in the view that no substantial, results have been obtained so far in the work of the suppression of the Communist troops in the Hunan-Kiangsi border area, The reason for this slow progress of the bandit-suppression campaign is attributed by. these commercial Bodies to the, lack of military cochung and, the 52nd General Hap Te-chin, Division under General' Hsu Ting-yao has also received instructions to leave for eastern Kiangai, It fs learned that General Ho Ying-chin, Minister of War will shortly leave for Kiangsi to direct operations—Kuo Min,
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