The Eighth Route Army is being used as an offensive guerilla unit, he declared, constantly "attacking the Japanese communications. He deseribed it as the most mobile force he had ever known. On one ocean slon he himself marched 43 miles in twenty hours with the troops, and in that time eight mountains were crossed.
During his tour he also had time to call on General Chiang Ting-wen at Sian, the capital of Shensi province, who 1s directing the operations in the Shensi area—Reuter,
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