Graphic Account of Former Communist Troops' Fight}
Against Japanese:
American Authoress Hankow, Jan. 12, Agnes Smedley, the American authoress of "China's Red Army Marches," who has arrived in Hankow after spending three months at the headquarters of the &th Route (ex-Communist) Army, which is engaged in guerilla warfare against the Japanese forces in Shansi, gave a ophic account to-day of the way in which "the whole population is uniting the ruggle against the Japanese despite almost insuperable hardships.'
Miss Swedloy first attracted attention in 1920 for her championship of other of boiled turnips, assisted some-Indian self-government in'an Ameri~ times by food captured from the can campaign, "From 1920 to 1928 she Japanese. - Such food was most lived in Germany and then in 1929 Valuable. Most of it was concentrat-visited'China as correspondent for the ed into small. packets, each contain-"Frankfurter Zeitung." She has re~ ing a day's rations for one man, and mained in China as an associate of it only needed to be soaked in water Madame Sun Yat-sen and others before being eaten, working for political rights. small party of Chinese women, "Having experienced Japanese me-including Ting Ling, a noted Chinese thods with helpless populations," she writer, travelled with the Army, gave said, "villagers always evacuate en the troops concerts and also devel-masse on the approach of Japanese oped the technique of singing news troops, taking with them their food-every night around bivouscs and stuts' and leaving behind empty relating news from all fronts in ballad houses und poisoned wells. Then, tile for the diversion of the tired when the Japanese troops have occupied a village, they are harassed" day and night with surprise attacks.
"Young men have all, joined. guerilla bands, or also are dering as
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