During the past few weeks they have been. foreed from the west-'Wards of Tyuny! to the east and then
av'steaag™ course bringing" them foutkewedtwnrde of weivang. alone Clare to. the marble walls" of this city which" they at no time ate Tempted to attack, "They came near because Government troops heminning them in. "A few days go ItTodked as If they would surely be. surrounded, Aeroplanes "were that at Inst they would be cornered
any gods to pray to, they mus and one, with, But, it "ie have prayed for rain, for that night It came down in torrents with accom= Panying thunder and lightning, and next morning they were found missing. heading southward, having' got through the innumerable ways round the multitudinous kopies. "There wax vent disappointment at Headquarters and rear anger at the front, for well-earned rewards seemed to be In sight. Now the communists are away south, and heading westwards, with Government troops in pursuit and others being marched in differ ent direction to try and Intercept them, Interception is a dimeult Job. 'A few cones will hide a division or 40, and hide and seek' can with the odds on the side of the communists. Tt is a baffling business, The only hope seems to be in eventually tiring them out." Tf they fare kept on the run steadily enough this must happen in time, for they. have no stronghold to petite in and ind they know not whither going. Their polley has for Ime been to run away as fast as they could and avoid all contact troops as possible engaged ea that member of the Church there, has letter the Generalissimo was involved their fellows elsewhere. might es-been "to Kweiyang since the" Reds in a meeting of welcome, The om We have no telegraph news service, tablish themselves in an impregnable Gials and party members outbid of course; so we are weeks late with left and reports that the Christians position, or, at. least, be able to themselves in pasane of praise of the our Knowledge of what has' taken were not "molested, except" to be sustain " themselves. For. all the Performances of the man in their Place in the outside world whence we closely questioned and searched {or communists to join together would midst. Unhappily for them no re-came. But we are promised: better foreigners or foreign property. They certainly be to the advantage of were threatened with death if they ciprocal feeling toward them was times, for the other day a Ford plane the Government troops, since "they tried to conceal any foreigners. As awakened in the bosom of the Gen: Belonging to. the National "Aviation could then in time effect an envelop~ happened a Roman Catholic Bishop, efalissimo, He is used to. travel Corporation hopped in on a scouting ing movement. "And there is possibly Frenchman, was visiting in the city in difficult places, and to hardship tour and that Indicates that pechane another reason that has disconcerted when the fighting began but got out when he gets there. He thinks wwe shall soon have an altemail aes this particular force of communists, 4 few hours before #t fell and hid in nothing of it. It is his duty, and he is, has now gone on to Yunnan: the death of their chief military the country near for some time, then does it, These welcoming omelals, a, and will be back in a day or so, leader. Tt seems to be beyond all escaped back across the river and used to their cushioned ease and their ound for the coast, where a report doubt' that Chu Teh "succumbed to eventually reached Kweiyang safe opium pipes, looking with bleary.
Will be made of mail possibilities by wounds. For a day or so. before afler having been given up as lost eyes on this amazing lithe man of Mr. Bixby, who is aboard of It on ite the communists got near to this city Also Mr. and Mrs. Robinson of the some 110 Ib. and wondering why he {initia ight into these cloudycmoune fon their southern line of escape, 1. M. were on the way from Kwel-{ain regions, evades the flesh-pots just to serve his from the region north-west of yang to Tsunyl and had got within country, heard what our American Tsungyl, aeroplanes observed what) 4 1 of the place when the terrified The Spread of Opium they took to be a comin being carried. friends would describe in their point. refugees hurrying away toward Kweled colloquial as an "earful."
This digression has been caused by Tt was draped with a red. banne yang warned them that it would be and the fact that it was carried day madness to go further. They turned The Generalissimo and Madame: sass ele some ination Chiang Kai-shek, during their travels live, as it' were, in the heltow of" Femoteness of this place, after "day. indicated that it was about and made the ' best of their Someone of importance who had chance to reach Kweiyang. People in in the remote west of the country, Wave in what Sir" Alexander Hosie died. Communists taken "prisoner Tounyi were paying fabulous. prices have had their hearts wrung by the during the fighting near this city sight of the poverty and the distress 4m one of his books, when alluding for coolies to carry them away, any-this region," described 'a 'a "yar stated that what was being. carried Shing from $20 to $40 apiece for car-caused by misgovernment and callous Indifference to the needs of the, mountains". "It ly because of that was the corpse of their military riers to Kweiyang, five days away. leader, Chu Teh, who has been with because of the absolute remoteness The Communists left Tsunyl, that people and the country. the communist movement since. its until very recent times. when, roads certain but it seems impossible to When they got to this far-removed inception and who proved such a learn just where they have gone, The honan to be driven in, that the ents bitter dose for the Government troops Province, which no high official of troops keep milling about hither and lola regarded the region' ae' they to swallow in Kiangsi. the Central Government visits on own to do with as they liked, Ava thither with apparently no idea what to do. A body of Yunnan pleasure or business, they saw. they liked to smoke opium. And thee Prisoners Tell of Chu Teh were bivouaced Uked to have it grown because ily 80 per cent. of the popula Brought them in lois of mon The prisoners said that Chu Teh morning they started out toward was badly wounded at a town called Klensi. "They had gone only a short tion smoke opium, and they look it not spend the money on ie cone, Moutai, celebrated in this region for distance when a message came over The officials ere never seen in their ley, of course, But thay fined farmers wine. It is situated some. dis-the wire and by noon or so they were offices before the afternoon, and they did net grow opium and they tance north-west of Tsungyl. From back. Now it is reported that about then but for a short while, ined them if they did, because, after there the man was carried on an that time the Reds were within half In Tsunyl, and other towns removed all, is {t not wicked to grow ophacy improvised stretcher wherever the 4 day's journey of Tating but evident-from this capital. one cannot have a The farmer, poor fellow: a force fled from the Government ly they went off somewhere else telegram sent till the morning has! fand in the end became ted troops, and grew weaker and weaker How they had managed to get Past, and there would be general the situation and began to smoke to Chutaoshan (Ping's Head" Hill), near the city without the troops wonderment if anyone expressed sur-ease his mind and comfort his soul, about 35 miles north of Kweiyang, knowing of it is a puzzle. "All in al prise at the fact, or complained about Now, az the song says, "Everyone is was reached. There he succumbed, would seem likely that, atter leavjoing It" and not wishing to part with their ing Tsuny!, they followed much the So the people—so far distant from.
Yeader. or bury him haphazard any-game trail as the previous time; off such happy places as Shanghai, and Generatissimo's Rebuke where, they kept on carrying him on N.W. into Szechuen. Tt-may be the Nanking—resign themselves to their And it is about all this that the the stretcher, with the ted. banner cordon of troops about them is now fate and smoke opium, too. What welcomers heard from" the Gens over him, but uncoined. This man foo strong for them to break but this else is there to do? "Do not the eralissimo the other day, The. sweet far from certain. "Some men from rear men of the land set the fashion, words they lavished upon him ap: the Church in Yuanchow, Hunan, who told they they do on your seaboard, where arently fell off him ike rain from, were very affected by his death. On went in search of the two missionar~ not many are prompted to follow in, duck's buck. He' was not at all him, of course, they depended for {es held prisoner by Ho Long and the footsteps of the Generalissimo but the polit efficient leadership, and with him Hsiao K'eh, brought back a report prefer to languish in the lap of the collective tact dead their future "at once became that there was to be a conference of luxury and in pleasant surroundings.
Red leaders from Hunan, Kueichow serious. Before them, while he was ful they were had his promises of a and Szechuen to be in Tayong, Hunan, A Diticult Country.
ise, and, therefore, they toler on March 18 for deciding their plan {ing that as he had not been in Kuei of campaign.
Why. of course, should they risk chow before, and had only been here the cruelties Infileted on the their necks penetrating such out of few days, he could not tay: much and the fire and the slaughter Messrs. Hayman and Bosshardt the way places as Kueichow, or even about the place. The faces looked ty that accompanied their existence. Tt the approximately remote Szechtien? was all for the glory of the cause The two captives, Mr. Hayman and it they said "That's not s0 bad." but Why give up the splendour of the and to pave the way to the promised Mr. Bosshardt, were found by these when the next sentence or so cam Shanghai palaces for the drafty barns land of so-called communistic free-messengers safe and well treated and saying that from what he could dom. "Whether Chu Teh really be-ven good food. They were allowed that pass for first-class houses here: the "backwardness and the distress Voved all this it is dimeult to say. fan hour's talk with the messengers where the beds are boards (though of Kueichow are due to the corrupt What is true is that once committed under guard and allowed to write a We understand the Generalissimo and tion of officials and the cultivation to the lawlessness that he started in letter to be brought back.
Madame Chiang have a few layers of of Poppy and the smoking of opium," the name of communism he had to seems that they had somehow Miao-made felt on theirs to ease their they looked astonished, and" then atlee to It. or disappear, or surren-managed to escape and" were out tired bones), and where the food is startled, and then definitely glum. der, As it is he died while running three days before being returned to The Generalissimo did not spare Away from the troops of the Govern their captors by the local people. For 'Meat is a rarity, and what is some-them, He frayed the curse of opium, ment, and now his following are this attempt their ransom was raised times obtainable comes from the poor and he told them that they would hard' put to It to know what to do. from $60,000 to $00,000." Other parts Tone bullock who has been misguided have to wipe it out and got up and They are in a land far from flowing of the ransom are two antiaircraft enough to allow himself to be driven do something to develop the nroviner with "milk and. honey, end for une, wireless telegraph set, medicines over the high mountain passes. to to give the people legitimate and 10,000 of them to set food. isa and ammunition. 'These they expect work till he is At to die. 'Then proper employment. be furnished by Gen. Chiang Kal-he finds himself hanging in' the Eventually the Generalissimo me tremendous problem. Some say that there are more' of them, but 10,000 is 9 large mouth to feed shek. The messengers were detained five days, well treated and sent back safe. butcher's shop, the cynosure of lots of hungry eyes. There's pig, dicated that that was all he had to say, and, in dead silence, only broken. while running willy-nilly born. the We are again When we course, but who wants to eat' the by the faltering efforts of the Boy with the troops, moving, if possible, where they have reason to believe there are no troops stationed, Guerilla Warfare Taettes The tactics of the Generalissimo are those based on guerilla warfare, His force ts divided up into groups which have to keep on the move and in touch with the communists, 0 that when the latler do make a tun for ft there are always some troops on their heels. Tf there seems to be an indication that the communists are about to make a stand Dlock-houses are hastily run fan effort to surround them, but far it has been in vain. There is no. country, Now they have Man Chane tung, a boon companion of Chu Teh to depend unau. but he is no military man. He isa politician and theorist, native of Hunan. Once he was a school-master. He used to be one of the original members of the Central Potitieal Committee in. Cai ton after Dr. Sun Yat-sen's death. Under Russian influence he threw: himself and his dreams in with the communists, and he has been in the eld since the advent of the so-called communist movement.
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