Terrible Atrocities Committed by Kiangsi Communists Peking, Apr. 1.
The menace from bandits and jccmmunists in the province ut Kiangsi grows worse as time passes. Ten thousand Red troops under Chu Teh and Mao Te-tung, who have been ravaging portions of Kiangsi, Fukien and Kuangtung for more than two years, now control many Pats of north and west Kiangsi as well as the entire valley of the Kan. long between Kianfu and Kanchow, in the south of the province. These Reds and depredations, besides Government buildings onery and other foreign Property. The feeling against for-Jcizners in these regions is worse than it has been at any time since 1927, The Reds attack undefended towns and then, when Govenment troops are sent against them, move rapid marches into " other districts, seized that city on the 2311 and held it for three days, evacuate ing the pla ruthlessly The-City Magistrate as boiled in oil while ether prominent including the principal of the lead: ing high-school and the senior El nese pastor of the China Inland Mission, were murdered with every brutality, Many of the shop-keepers Jand other inhabitants were tortar-$60,000
Six foreigners were bound and made prisoners when the city was.
Three of them, Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Porteous, British sub.
American, all "belonging to the China Inlend Mission, were carried of by the bandits while Mr. and Mrs, R. HI. Glazier, Americans, and Miss Rugg, British, escaped.
The Government troops in Nanchang recently have only totalled 1,000 of which half are now distributed along the Kiukiang-Nanchang Railway. Hence the provineial capital is now held by a very weak force and is liable to fall into the hands of the Reds. The city is therefore being evacuate missionary families, Bandits are also very active along the Upper Yangtze and many towns in the on the in. habitants. The Chinese agents of the Standard Oil Ca, in that district were captured by bandits but subsequently released.
There has also been an increase lately in banditry in all the outlying districts. around Hankow, and it is believed that it was one of these bands that recently fired on the str, Kutwo—Reuter.
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