To the Editor of the "Noara-Curxa Dany News"
Sin—A number of Britishers living in Western Szechuan will appreciate your exposing certain statements contained in the book "China's Red. Army Marches" by a Miss Agnes Smedley and being handled for sale by British firms in Shanghai.
In the Introduction to the book, page XIV, referring to Szechuan, is, the following:
"The formation of this new Soviet focal militarist, to enable terminate the Red menace. The loan also induced Liu Hsiang to view with happy pleasure the occupation of west fern Szechuen and bordering Chinese Drovinees by Brilish puppet troops who had marched in from Tbet""
There is about as much truth in the statement that twenty million pounds, or approximately three hundred million silver dollars, was handed over to General Liu Hsiang. by the British Minister in China to exterminate the Red menace, as there is in the statement that "British puppet troops" have marched. in from Tibet and are occupying Western Szechuan and bordering Chinese provinces. A tissue of lies} Another statement on page XIV of the Introduction to the book:—
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.