The Communist forces—estimated variously at: between 20,000 to $0,000 men—are delivering a serious threat to Kwelchow's capital, where the Generalissimo is personal directing the Government operations. Since being driven out of Kiangsi these Red troops have passed through the north of Kuangtung, the south of Hunan, the south of Kweichow (within twenty miles south of Kwelyan) to" the Yunnan and Szechuan border. Thence they have Jatruck backwards to the north of Kweichow, owing to their discovery of the impossibility of erossing the Yangtze in face of the strong Government forces likely to be opposed to hem there. Slipping across the Wu Kiang on rafts they unexpectedly took Tsunyi, a loss for which General Chiang Kai-shek took disciplinary action against the Government commander. From Tsunyi they have now pushed southwards so that they were within twenty miles of Kweiyan—this time on the north side. The fighting appears to be developing in intensity and the Government's #aS39 Sazsszes2 sqasssaeanaaeasaense: forces are being subjected to a severe test. The Kwangs! troops are said to be moving up in support of the Generalissimo's drive which, Judging from the latest telegrams, appears to have successfully countered the threat to Kwelyan. The Reds have again changed their course and are en-Jdeavouring to effect a junction with Ho Lung's forces. They have an advantage over their pursuers in the greater mobility usually accruing to Jmarauders of their sort. But evident-General Chiang Kai-shek is determined to give them as little rest as possible and the action of his aeroplanes may prove a decisive factor achieving his declared desire of rounding up the fugitives.
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