In the city of Nancheng, in the heart of the territories in' Kiangsi recently recovered from the Communist-bandits by the forces of Gen. Chiang Kal-shek, an especially interesting piece of work is being done by the Special Political Training Department under the direction of Gen. Chang Tu-lin to aid the people in their efforts to recover from the horrors and miseries which they suffered at the hands of the Reds.
This city, with a population of 150,000 and built during the early part of the Tang dynasty (about the seventh century), like most others in China, had suffered great ly a5 a result of the misdoings of corrupt officialdom and harsh taxa~ tion, 0 it was only natural that the people should have welcomed the Communist-bandits as saviours three years ago, following the many prom-isos of the Reds to. liberate "them and give them a better government, They believed these promises then, but it took them only'a few. months to learn that there was "nothing doing:" that the Soviet system wat just as bad, and even worse, the governments which preceded it Nevertheless, they were forced to remain under the Soviet until quite recently when Gen, Chiang swept the Reds from the city, and recaptured it for the Central Government,
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