A disorganized force of 100,000 dis-grundied men, attacked on its right flank by the 28th and 20th armies, must find a position where its rear is safe from attack, and the Tibetan toot-hills evidently provides such place, 'The Red armies took tremenous" risks when they left their stronghold in northeast Szechuen land came on to the plains west of the Kialing river. 'The only chance doing 50 was' the absence of a strong armed force on their north The plain and the Fu River wet successfully crossed and the foot hills reached west of the C.MS. stations, Bishop Holden, who probably knows more of the Red situation than any other man in Szechuen, and who has travelled some 800 miles during the resent disturbed condition of the Province, had strongly advised the withdrawl of all EMS, workers to Chengtu.
Naturally when Chengtu met this influx they immediately concluded that that large city was in danger. However that was not so," Chengt could be defended or evacuated according to plan and several Szechuen war-lords have found to. their cost that both methods have proved their undoing. 5 The wealthy, important, populous city of Chengtu is a trap the Reds are not quite prepared to walk into, at least not at the present time. What their plan of campaign will be once they Zink up with the Yunnan forees, they ever succeed in doing £0, remains to be seen.
The Reds found their position in northeast Szechuen, impossible so a move had to be made sooner of later, With Shes: troops on their north, and the Szechuen and national troops on their south and west, they had to make some move that would, mak ther position more secure, and at the same time effect, if possible, a link with the Reds driven out of Kwel-chow. "North was impossible was equally so, s0 a break was made through the lines of the 28th and '20th Armies, apparently quite a simple procedure,
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