"These partisan bands have drilled themselves in the hills, and their nünfbers are increasing daily. For instance, at Wutaishan, I saw a group 1,500 strong. A month later it numbered 10,000 men.
"The guerilla fighters are enduring very great hardships with fortitude, some of them losing hands or feet frost-bitten during night operations. Many thousands are marching barefoot deep in snow and wading in freezing rivers neck-deep.
"The Japanese hold in the North is confined to roads and plains, amd communications are frequently cut, Recently the 8th Route Army captüréd an entire Japanese brigade headquarters, with staff, after attackimg the rear of a Japanese column "The problems of supplies is difficult. Often a hundred men set Out with fifty rifles, When a man falls, a comrade picks up his weapon and continues the struggle until the company is equipped with captured Japanese arms.
"The army manufactures its own grenades m small arsenals in very remote districts,
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