More than 40,000 mobile troops have moved north across the Chientang River to the Soochow-Kashing Railway areas, it is further claimed. halts east of Changchow on the ps are sca
hanghai-Nanking Railway, while 50 bandits, known as the "red ars", which have sworn allegiance the Kuominteng command, are operating in areas bordering Tai Lake, with their activities centring around Kashing, Huchow, Changhing, and Ihing the Japanese newspaper Reported on the basis of what were described as Chinese claims.
At least 1,000 men of the so-called Patriotic Salvation Army are deployed in a sector south of Pootung, the Kuomintang asserts, the daily stated. "Taking the reported estimates with some reserve, it may still be admitted that about 15,000 Chinese"are operating, or ready to operate, in the areas south of the Yangtze", the paper added, Headquarters ai Kinhwa Headquarters of these troops are situated in Kinhwa, provisional site of the Kuomintang Provincial Government, which is located in a most strategical position in those areas. Kinhwa is linked by the Chekiang-Kiangsi Railway with Nanchang, Hengyang, Siangtan, and Changsha, while motor highways lead from this centre of military operations to Wenchow and Ningpo, the "Mainichi" commented.
Most important to Chinese military strategy is the highway between Ningpo and Kinhwa, this latter town
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