AAs the Communist moroned soutiwards and others deserted their homes find fled along the road to. Kueiyang Garrying what they' could of their belongings with them. When the com munists approached Slifeng' 8 panic
could got away did s0._The presence lace tu tat town and al! who the Fetugese and proximity of the Communists would have crested panic here had not the Generalissimo End Madame: Chiang Kat-alick been tolablished here, If the Communists Contrive to evade the - Government and real the soup with everyone else here for there is no way of escape except a few questionable looking motor cars and an old bus. There are. no aero. planes these days for the simple Feason that clouds hang low over the mountains, and the planes cannot got ere from Chungking or anywhere else. TE the Communists "had. not given up the gentle practice of prayer they might have continually prayed for rain og their best friend in these times, and might well have claimed that their prayers were answered since this is the cloudy season.
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