Inside the city is at least a brigade of Szechuan soldiery with a fair quantity of munitions and it is this as well as food and money that the Reds are after. The Unfortunate people living in the country and suburbs it that Chu Teh has and is responsible for these new activities. He is emulating famous de Wet, of the Boer dead one day but alive the he has been resurrected then the reversion to the old ruthless policy is understandable, yet what the explanation of the feverish rush over hundreds of miles of mountain fous country without waiting to take a city or fighting unless cornered 'There is no official news about the gentleman. He was reported dead by captured communists "and certainly 2 bier was carried for a considerable time. 'The farmers of the country passed declared that the bier held' a corpse judging from the smelt; so the question now 1s: whose was Official news on May 14 from the! vicinity of Hwaili is that Reds are around the city. Nalurally they hide when they hear aeroplanes, 20 the: observers caught sight of no activity. Unquestionably they are laying siege to the place, but when planes ai about they do not continue their attacks, if they are making any. No official news comes from within the sity, so what Is occurring there cannot be stated with accuracy. The Communists have apparently left a force behind to try and capture Hwaili while others are continuing northward. minated the heavens. The visitors were delighted with the varieties and brilliance of the display.
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