According to recently retuned visitors to Kwangsi, that province should be as well equipped as any {in this country to repel a Red Invasion, Not only has it efficient mili= tary leaders, but also it has a mille tio which has been raised and ed over a number of years and which, to all appearance, is nearly as good as the regular forces. Up to "now, however, the Kwangst forces have not been put to the test of defending their hearths and Fhomes against a desperate horde being driven on by the bayonets of troops behind them, -OMelal claims, which seem to be well founded, g0 to show that they are standing "the test well. Tt is to be hoped, bow= ever, that they will not rest content with' defending their own boundary but will carry on and assist the Hunanese authorities upon whom the Reds appear to have been turned back. Examples in the past of the harm done by an exaggerated res~ pect for the integrity of the nelghe Douring provinces wilt doubtless be incentive enough for pushing the victories already won to their logical conclusion,
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