The Archive · 1933

Generalissimo's Plans

Against this formidable organi tion 'Chiang Kai-shek jo coneentr: ting between 100,000 "and 200,000 men in Kiangsi, "On arrival from other provinces' these troops have oon quartered in and, around the good service in the field. The girls fare drawn from the fifteen. to eighteen class guides, stretcher bearers and carrier coolies have been organised in each district, and special corps of _washer-women {follow the troops. Food is requisitioned as needed, and a receipt Jgiven which entities peasants and shop-keepers to compensation kind from the nearest Soviet store. Once they leave this area the effectiveness of the Red Army as a fighting force will be halved and their morale broken.

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