Despatring of ever getting across] the broad Wu River of Hunan Pro: vince to the wilds of Kweichow and Szechuan the communist rabble that was lately cast out of "Kiangsi has turned into Kwangsi, and for some days the fate of the important port of Wuchow was in doubt, Being as they were in a pocket deep corner of Kwangs!, they had no trouble filtering through holes in the, provincial line of defence, but many It looked like the performance of the magical hat and rabbit trick While the military commanders were rubbing thei: missionary was racing like ma Canton to spread the alarm, with the first intimation that anybody had down here that they were 60 miles of the Kwangst river port.
Within two. hours of the receipt! of this "distressing news, the USS. Mindanao was going at full speed up the West River; H.BM''s Gun-Boat Robin was wirelessed, turned abou, and also headed up stream followed soon by the Cle American Consul Smith was on the Mindanao, and stayed in Wuchow until she' got back two. days ago. All was calm and serene in" that port; "foreign branch offices could hardly believe that in the hinter-Luna consternation reigned; but by feeble and through the air other con~ firmations of Soviet advances and gains poured in, Well Conceived Scheme Actual cohesion, with Hunan, Kwangtung and) Kwangsi fulfilling every" order of National Military Headquarters in the letter and the spirit Would have ensured the success of the well-thought-out scheme for bottling up the enemy in seven Hunan counties. Well ahead of the ira from Kiangs!, Chiang Kalshek had cleared these seven coun-destroyed, every particle of foodstuff removed.' It was a barren land into which the vandals we enticed, as the spider enticed the fy' into his "apartment, That land is flat plain where the foe could not have concealed his movements from eyes of aerial "observers, and they could have been bombed, and bombarded, and charged, until their defence entirely caved in. But the enemy went in, turned around, and came right out again. Chiang' Kal-alick and his Hunan colleagues had tele divisions in position to shuy the northern gate, but Kwangtung and Kwangs! tet them down shamefully. eft the écors they were to guard te the south and west wide open.
Red Leaders tu Flight Out-generalling the allied warlords, the Red leaders feinted as if to cruss the Wu River. By now the 'Ais should be able to see through feints, but they never seem to. Lots of men were sacrificed on the south bank of the Wu River, but it profiled te Reds much, for," as re Jated above, they took' their main Body alors' several roads into Kwangsi counties, putting them back into {he mountains where they are fay sUptior to the regulars We in Canton are waiting to learn it full credence can be given to the oficial communiques. "It would seem That the Reds have been driven farther from Wuchow, but the outcome of the big baltic of December 2''before Chuanchow in more nor therly" Kwangsi as voiced by the Government seems too wonderful to bbe 100 "per cent. true. "10,000 Red ead, 6,000 prisoners" laconically but boldly" the communiques fairly scream. Accompanying this disclosure is the prophecy of a far more overwhelming success, Kwangtung Givisions to make a stone wall up to which the Hunnanese and Kwang-alites are. to push the losers, with the county of Kwanyang to be the site of most of the carnage.
Necessity alone has brought! Kwangtung flying to the rescue of her friends from the neighbouring Kwang. province. Kwangsi has to fight, for her back is to the wall, Aguratively speaking: she ts éefendher own homes. And Wunan's armies are dominated more than the others by the national commander-in-chief. While the So-Viet forces were in Hunan, the southerners other than the "Hunhanese were pretty well content to watch their own territorial lines: it ig now a horse' of another colour with the Reds in a position to spread misery and desolation in the heart of the south.
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