A few picture posters are to be seen on the streets which very men resemble those which appeared when th Communist hordes were in the province three yeats ago. As then the Communists were represented as impaling women and children, so now the Japanese are depicted; it seems a pity that such things @hould be encouraged, for obviously no good purpose is attained, A far more satisfactory plan adopted is the putting up of well-drawn maps of, the war area in central China showing by different coloured little flags the relative positions of the rected regularly (and they seem to be very fairly stated so far) they wilt be of very real assistance to the large crowds, always to be seen studying them. It is worth more than all the newspapers, and other abuse of the enemy put together and is not likely to create any permanent bitterness between the two peoples.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.