Driven with Fleeing Reds on Forced Marches Shanghai, Dec. 3.
Suffering from the hardships of repeated forced marches, but nonetheless well, and fairly humanely Ireated, "Messrs. A Hayman and R. 'A. Bosshardt, members of the China Inland Mission who were captured by Communists in Kweichow nearly two months ago, are being held in the mountain "fastnesses of north. western Honan while the Red leaders:
Dargain with emissaries of the Gov ernment for their release, however, all combined completely 10 rid the' province of this. terrible menace, The adjoining province of Fukien rapidly is being cleared of scattered remnants of the Communist bandits, most of whom are attempt to flee westward, They are, how-
4 ruthless campaign a anders in other provinces, An Inhuman Horde "Looking back over these terrible years, one is forced to the conclusion that Communists are inhuman. Words fare totally inadequate to convey to outsiders what our people have suf fered. They have not merely been Cuprived of, the bare necessities ut Jife, but in desperation many of them have joined these fanatics and become brutalised.
"As the National troops forced their way into bandit-controlled. tersilory, they discovered that sections of the people had developed a hardened "conscience and insensibility to shame, while the vast majority had succumbed to melancholy. For this T find it 19 hard to forgive the Communists, With the pendulum swinging backward, the whole population hag revolted against such savagery and depression. The people are re-ponding enthusiastically to the Government programme of recovery and" reconstruction and are now very hopeful.
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