The Archive · 1935

Communists Menace Yunnanfu

Turned Northwards Towards Szechuen: Many Chiefs Believed Killed

Kweiyang, Apr. 28.

Finding the western route towards Yunnanfu cut of by Government troops, the Communists yesterday turned and fled eastward of Choching, but were sighted by Government aeroplanes at Paisui and bombed.

officially claimed that over 300 Reds were killed, among them Yang Nai-kwun, political chief of the ist Communist Army.

"Their forces thinned, the Reds then moved northward to Tsinyih, where they were attacked by other Government troops, who, according an. oficial statement, inflicted about 600 casualties.

"The depleted Communists are stated to. be panic-stricken, since they have received no news oF orders from their Central Executive Committee since April 24, On that day" government planes coated the members of the Commit~ tee on a mountain trail and, official

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