It seems clear that the Reds in North Szechuen and the itinerant fugitives originally located in South Kiangsi have joined hands somewhere the West of Szechuen.. This june tion is not unpalatable to the Generalissimo for it least spares him the difMculty of having to deal with two Separate concentrations. The telegrams suggest that in the course of their enforced wanderings the Communists have been able to compel local tribesmen and a certain number of the peasants to join their forces. These recruits are likely to prove more of a liability than an asset, although, of course, they tend to swell the number of the Red bands. Ti may be assumed that if the provin-lal troops can be stiffened to put up effective resistance to the Reds, Gen-feral Chiang Kai-shek will have the satisfaction of knowing that his sustained pressure has actually driven the enemies of his Government to Seek refuge in the ouler marches of Szechuen whence they may make their way into Sinkiang. They not likely to reach that objective particularly good trim, but once ther 19 the Generalissimo may feel that they! have solved his problem. In Sinkiang a fow more Communists will make but little difference to the general complexion of that uncertain territory.
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