At Mienninghsien they played 9 dirty and desperate trick by stirring! the Lolo tribes-people in that vicinity to turn on the innocent Chinese civilian townspeople and the farmers round about, and it is said that under the eyes of the Reds they massacred families running into many hundreds. oles have always been hard to manage, and in the past have been always 'a source of great trouble t9 the Chinese officials. Now, incited by Reds, they have been able to get some revenge, but what it will profit them in the long run it is hard to What the action has done is to show the Reds up in a proper light. Their own slaughtering of their own people has been horrible enough, but to tite tribes-people to participate in the massacring of women and children is something that passeth understanding.
is, of course, the act of desperate Behind the Reds from the south are marching the forces who have followed them right from Kiangsi. They march slower, as is natural, but they are getting on the heels of the quarry the more the latter are being held up.
is to be hoped they arrive in time before the Reds slip through the mountains further north. The latter
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