New Ca-operation Expected to Secure' Eradication Canton, Aug. 12.
'A new, and what, is hoped will prove an effective, plan for putting fan end to the activities of the Red armies, which have been terrorizing southern China for many months, fs about to come into operation. A punitive expedition against them has been organized to which the! three southern provinces, Kuan, tung, Kiangsi and Fukien have each Up to the present, troops of these adjoining provinces' have not been permitted to eross the bounder from one province into another without special permission, and this fact has given. the Communist armies a great advantage. They have! rigzagged backwards and forwards from Fukien to Kiangsi, down into Kuangtung, and then back again, escaping from the regulars each time they passed from one territory into the other, With the organization of the atest punitive expedition composed of forces from the three provinces, ju-agreentent has been reached that boundaries may be cross and ecuted" and ie ie thought that under these conditions the Communists will be quickly corner jed and dispersed.
Foreigners as Victims The Red armies under Cha Tak other way and Mo Chak-tung may comprise 'a certain number of sincere Communists, but undoubtedly the gre majority of the bands are robbe and cut-throats. Murders have been committed by them on a wholesale scale, wealthy captives have been held for ransom anid they have destroyed a tremendous amount of property. Foreigners, and esp2- cially missionaries, have been among the principal sufferers at their hands, On entering a town these Reds have gone straightaway to foreign mission compounds, have ransacked the premises, burned what they could not take with them, and re invariably seized the mission. ie, men, women and chtiaven, a prisoners.
Father Young, an American Catholic priest, and the Rev. Mr. Schramm, a German missionary, together with his wife and child, were taken prisoners in southern Kiangsi some months ago. and threatened with death if they did not pay a large sum of money. Luckily, just after Mrs. Schramm and her daughter had been released that they might go in search of funds, Mr. Schramm and Father Young made good their escape. More' re: cently Father Dalmasso, an Italian priest, was taken prisoner in northern Kuangtung, but he was sct free when the Red army was hard pressed by a Government force, At present, Commanders Chu and Mo have concentrated their brigands in the Fukien-Kuangtung border counties, a niountainous region. The task of driving out and dispersing these men is a difficult one, but the leaders of. the new allied!
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