Mr, Ma was able to throw some ight on the policy actuating the Communist Army. 'The Communists realize that they cannot hope to continue for ever moving from town to town and avoiding action with the government troops. Their' plan is to disorganize communications, destroy the rich, and preach their doctrines, in the hope that the number of the destitute will con-finally increase. They recruit.their ranks from the destitute and hope soon to have so large an army that they will be able to assume the offensive against the National Government. No doubt when the time is ripe they hope to receive assistance also from outside sources.
They have a great contempt for the Government troops and declare that they themselves are unafraid to die. "Pu p'a sze.
The main portion of the Communist Army still consists of Ho Lung and Yeh Ting's men, who broke away from Chang Fa-kuei's 4th Army, in the mysterious revolt} which occurred at Nanchang August 1927. Tt will be recollected that the remainder of this army that summer marched south into Kuangtung and in December staged the Communist rising at Canton in which a number of Russians were Killed. Chang Fa-kuei has been spending most of this summer in Kuling. He is apparently restored to favour. But since August 1927 the Communist Army has been loot ing and sacking-up and down the borders of Kiangsi, Hunan, Kuangtung and Fukien.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.