Successful Operations:—Village Looted by Bandits Detuils have been received of successful operations of government troops in north Kiangsu against the communists there.
On 4 report to the effect that about 1,000 Red troops were to jute and Hoolung, two situated to the north of the Colonel Woo Ziang-chaa of the 5th Division set on: with strong force to encounter them, On Wednesday morning, Colonel Woo's perty found that about 600 Red troops were marching directly, to Hoolung and it was decided to ambush them, This was successfully done, and about 80 Reds were killed and 160 captured. Only one soldier of Colonel Woo's party was killed and two injured.
Bandits numbering some 400 to 500 descended upon Tsuning, a city in the north of Kiangsu. Tt is estimated that about 100 inhabitants were killed and about 350 were ear-ried off for ransom. The District Officer and the members of the Kuomintang have sent telegrams reporting the incident and asking for assistance. besides, before having their new shops and homes completed have had them requisitioned for the soldiers. The people over 10 miles from the city are in constant fear many who come from are in constant fear of the military. Our escort feared only one thing, that they might be seized and made to become soldiers or be made burden bearers for the army. While their brothers in the North are dying by the millions in the throes of one of the worst famines in the history of the human race, there is enough good mheat land given over in Eastern Szechuan alone to grow the wheat to save those millions from starvation, and there is many times the energy expended in transportation of troops, and arms about this country to get that same grain where it is needed C. A. BaicMan,
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