in Hunan no reason other than that they are of themselves Reds.
Up to the present, the telegram wea" on to. tay, no fewer. than 150,000 "innocent people have been brutally murdered by these Com: mmunistbazdits an" more than 17300,000" others "have "fled "for refuge in the. nelghbouving pre: inces. OF houses, 103,000, have been burt the ground in Kiang alone and the people's Tosves excee $2,500.00. a At present, the telegram says in conclusion, 37 of the 81 districts of Kiangsi are completely under Red influence and 38 others are infested by Communist-bandits, In another telegram, the writers point out that the Red menace in central China just now is far worse than the revolt of the Kuominchun and the Shansi forces in that the are common people
the Gosernment forces for thes are pear upon the approach of exceptionally easy to
without uniforms and mix up with the people as sooh as they. know the troops are coming. Thus, it is most dificult to suppress them.
Although the northern robots levied heavy taxation on the people, they did it openly and their activities were, to a certain extent limited: On the other hand, the welivities of the Reds are unlimit-
'A report was received in Shanghai from Changsha that Changteh, one of the mest important cities in Hunan, was in a state of siege. Changteh, which is on the Yuan Kinng. lies directly to the west of the Tung Ling Lakes, southwest of Shasi and northwest of Changsh the provincial capital.
The message does not state who the besiegers are but presumably, they belong to the same group of Communists who recently captured and sacked Changsha.
Tt is reported that the railway] service to Hankow has been interrupted since the 10th instant and 4 that at least two of the stations Jalong the Canton-Hankow Railway] Line are in the hands of the Communists.
Gen. sife Chien, chairman of the Hunan Provincial Government, whose position is very insecure, has been demanding that no less a' sum than half a million dollars should raised from the sources of -the national taxes within five days in order to finance a general offensive, against the Communists which he proposes to begin.
Apparently, the Reds are again! showing their teeth, in spite of efforts on the part of the Government troops to suppress them and
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.