Some missionary friends have given me some items of news of the interior of Kiangsi that may interest readers of your paper. South jangsi, Kanshow and other dis seem now pretty quiet, though there was some bandit or Communist trouble in the southwest recently, but was soon put down, Central Kiangsi, especially towards the Hunan border on the west, has been disturbed by bandits and by the Third Army, that came over from Hunan, and gave much concern, This, has now, we hear, been defeated, partly disarmed, and attered, by the Sixth Army. It is said that part of the First. Army has also entered Kiangsi. General Wang Chuin, the Military Head of Province, is reported to be retiring, He has not been popular, and is suspected of Communistic ings, and has been rather: dila~ tory in putting down brigandage, In NE. Kiangsi there is reported to boo a real Communist "Nest", which has given much suffering to. the and poorly" acered.
call to. "Wake Up! out this pernelous "Nest™. There no remedy in cases such ax thi but the ruthless knife! The Come wanists "have proved themselves and should be speedily dealt. with, oF serious cone sequences may follow to. the coy try and to the Government.
Nanchang, we hear, continues pull down shops and houses, ete, to open its new and wide modern streets, forty to eighty fect "in width, It is a bold move, and something' that, a decade and I would have seemed. abso possible to accomplish. China fAdvaneing to neat the centre World's Platform, though still Juvenile in some of her ways! Let tus give her more sympathy th blame-—more consideration that
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