Chengtu, Oct. 1.
According tk a telegram' from Gen, Chu Shao-liang, chairman of the Kansu_ Provincial Government, a small number of Reds have reached Tungwei, 100 miles southeast of Lanchow, the provincial capital Kansu, Several thousand others, Under Mao Tse-tung, equipped with three radio sets, are roaming about it Hataipu, south of Minhsien, A large number of them are being starved to death, while stragglers ruthlessly killed by their com= rades.
The Reds who entered Kansu were the remnants of Chu Teh's men, They arrived at Hataipu on September 20, and the following day at. Liehwanchin, to the north of "'Tangehwan-Other Reds are fleeing from. the southern part of Minhsien ina northeasterly direction toward 'The Reds under Hsu Hsiang-chien have turned back since their failure to get to Kansu and are now fleeing toward Macerhkan and' Halungkan, Reuter, yest of Sungpan, "in Szechuen—
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