With regard to our immediate objective or task, T have to point oat that the Communist menace at the heart of the country not only causes much anxiety but also directly or Indirestly affects. our plans of na~ tional defence. Tens of our Central Government Divisions are at present directly affected by the Communist disturbances, not (0, speak of other things. After the Government sent one division of pieced men to the Great Wall in March last, Nanchang almost fell into enemy bands. The disaster was averted only after the return of General Chiang to Nanchang. Prospects, of the bandit. suppression campaign later seemed brighter when General Ho Chien and General Chen Chi-tang, formally assumed their posts as Chief Commanding Officers of the Western and Southern, Routes of the Band suppression Army respectively. Therefore, the Communist ban in Kiangsi constitutes an ailment at the heart of the country. "Unless the Communist bandits are exterminated, it will not only be impossi-Dle for us to consolidate the strength of our people but our efforts at ational defence wil also be render-
Communist banditry is our most lerly e suppression futile, "Nov one can, therefore,
urgent immediate task.
"There are two other points in our' circular of July 28 that require some elucidation or explanation. One (Continued on page $16.)
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