How the Red Armies Broke and Fled and What They Left Behind By Penewa, Fixeu, N-C. Mena Speciat, Commrsrosoent his latest despatch the special correspondent of the North-China Herald" dose es his tour of the Han River area where he visited country which for months had been impenetrably ammuuist until General Hsu Yuan-chuan carried out his great drive, Interviews with captive communist leaders give 4 most illuminating impression of the way in which the Communist creed was preached and then put into practice by Moscow-trained Chinese leader The effect of Red control described and signs of Yecovery from the ravages are already discernible, Most truce tive is the account given of efforts made to undo communist evil by counter-propagand: The Government is asserting itself and a system of mutual responsibility being worked out with good prospects of better things ahead.
Kuomintang slogan writers are beating the Red slogan writers at their own game.
Yokow, Han River, Dee. 11. tour of the Han River Dut it reveals, too, how exten: wag th Comniunist' penetration Hupeh, even to within a few miles of Hankow, before effective military, operations were undertaken three oF along 4tievembankment of the de-funer " Hankow-Szechuan railway now used as a motor road, tells of Communist raids and destruction. Before the anti-Bed drive, the was open for only about' 30. mi beyond Hanyang, the rest being penetrable Communist territory. A map of the aren during that period shows extensive areas of Communist control and most of the province subject to raids.
Hupeh Soviet experiment before the When the Hung Hu citadel fell, squad.
large' stocks of Soviet banke. notes And postage stamps were seized. 'Twenty tons of coppers in the min were confiscated but no silver was found, Large quantities of stores were found and over 100 latest type machine guns fell into Gen. Hsu' hands. Tons of propaganda bearing the familiar Soviet ideology. were seized and destroyed. From. the Hung prisons many' people captured in voids were liberated. One chapter in the operations was the "naval war", the Communists using hun-
Things are. vastly different now Since the anti-Communist drive en: trusted to the 10th army under Gen. Hou Yuan-chuan, a doughly fighter; hose military ability makes up for hart stature, the Red "govern: ment" at Hung ity has been over thrown, Communist strongholds other marshy sections north and south of the Han River have been captured and the province largely cleared of disturbing elements afte considerable fighting which claimed heavy casualties on both sides. The permanency of the victory depends on future measures for it is to be expected that three years" existence may have firmly rooted Communism in Hupeh, All over the province the farmers and. peasants: are beginning to return fo the land although complex problems of tenure and ownership fare being faced since. the Con munists thoroughly sovietised the, yy overran. The Lis fan River cotton is beginning to
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