Government Forces Halt Temporarily After Various Successes: Bandits on the Run Frost Our Owx East Kiangsi, Aug. 31.
During the summer months It seems that the anti-Red drive in eastern Kiangsi was less vigorous than it used to be and the advancement. slowed down by the extraordinary heat of the summer's burning sun. Nevertheless, striking progress has been accomplished during the past six months, that is, from the closing of the Fukien imbroglio last year-end [down to the end of May.
With the swift subjugation of the Pukien insurgents, all avallable for~ ces wore transferred 40. fight the Communist-bandits in the territory of the Kiangs! and Fukien borders. More cities have been captured, more dis-{rlets recovered and more grounds regained, and the bandits have been riven farther back to the south, into the unknown woods and mountains where human traces had been destroyed ever since the first influx of the Communists in 1927, "The condition is, therefore, quite different from what it was half a year ago.
From October, 1998 to May, 1924, many severe battles were fought in this sector (in a radius of more than 100 miles), of which the battles of Tsechi, Hsuwan, Nancheng, Tsungien, Kinlienshan range (on the Kuangtung order) on the south and southwest, the home of the Kiangsi Commun' {st-bandits and its real condition is always ttle known to the outside world. Within this area, there are Ave districts, Shincheng, Ningtu, Hsingkuo, Juikin (soviet capital) and Huichang (soviet arsenal).
The last two are the important cities of the Hed area which is bounded on the north by the three mountainous districts of Shihcheng, Ningtu and Hsingkuo, and on the east and southwest. by long. and high mountain ranges, The whole area is roughly put at 90,000 eq. It oF 8700 sq. miles, includ= Ing all the five districts. What the true conditions are like is revealed from time to time by the bandit victims and the Red captives.
Since the recapture of Chunmenlin by the Cantonese forees in April and May the routed Red forces withdrew fo Huichang and have established their last line of defense there, To keep pace with the progress of the Cantonese, the Eastern Route forces under General Chiang Ting-wen push= ced southward along the Fukien border toward Changting. The. pressing advance of both the Eastern and the and Lichuen have already been published, Tt was in these battles that the Communist menace was finally brought under control. They tried to revive their setivites during the Puklen trouble but were successfully checked and subsequently quenched by General Chiang Kal-shek. After that, an intensive drive against the Reds on the Kiangs! and Fukien borders was simultaneously launched by the Northern and Eastern Route Armies of the Bandit Suppression forces under Generals Ku Cho-tung, and Chiang Ting-wen respectively.
Southern forces compelled the Reds to withdraw to Juikin, Shihcheng and Changting. In the meantime, a8 Jul-in was made the frst line of defense, they removed their capital from Jul-kin' to a place called Poseng, some: where in the mountains on the Kiangsi-Fukien border.
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