The large township of Husiti in Huaiyang, in eastern Honan, wa: captured by the Reds numbering several thousands under the lender= ship of Yang Li-kung, Chang. /Hsueh-long and Cheng Tao-yun.on [September 6. More than 3,000) people were either taken ax cap-ives or killed by them and the military authorities" immediately despatched troops to recapture the: the town. Communists are said to} directing the activities of these bandits and at the time of writing the capital of Luyihsien was cap= tured by them and its magistrates taken away to bandit headquarters.
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