Yunnanfu, May 21.
The Generalissimo left this after noon by aeroplane for Kweiy bound for Chengtu, where his hea quarters will be for some time if the Reds can contrive to. maintain themselves in Szechuen Province. Judging by the way they fied in a Breat circle in Kweichow Province after the advent there of the Generalissimo and streaked through the north of Yunnan' Province into Szechuen, they might do quite a lot of running in the latter Province. They seem {o be bent on getting out into Kansu Province and beyond, no doubt in the hope of obtaining sustenance and security from the Soviet or its Third Internation: was thought by many who had no knowledge of the topography along the Yangize River where it bends south into Yunnan Province that the Reds could have been held there. The Idea prevailed that the Yangize ran through precipitous Gorges for a considerable distance and that men would have to be like monkeys to get across Yangtze Easy to Cross in towns and villages passed. But he saw. no Reds. If any were on the trail they went into complete hiding as seen as they heard the roaring of the engines. With the Generalissimo was one small bombing plane, end it plied its inquisitive way at a lower altitude searching for signs of the fleeing bandits. When it started out it was cuddling bombs under its wings. "When it got back to Yunnan it had none. The Generalissimo flew nearly halt wav to Chengt before he wined back to Yunnan. Along the Anningho nothing was seen of bandits and there were no fires burning that! could be detected as far as Sichong (Ningyuantw, which seemed Indicate thas'the Reds were travel-
Hing fast northwards rut of the way of the planes and the pursuing Government. troops.
Sichong was near the head of the valley, close to the footh'ls of the Talliang Shan ranges which rose Just to the north-Near by was a delightful ttle lake of bright green, set near the hills, but the people of the farm on its shore seemed to be in the That myth was exploded last Sunday, May 19, by the General lasimo himself, He went to have a ook at the physical conditions obtaining there, the Reds having got over some time before and his own troops after them, and he was sure that neither possessed the athletic attributes of the simian trip fact the Yangtze could be swum on side, and the stream though fairly rapid is not wide.
The Generalissimo few to it via Lungkal, Sitting in the cockpit of the Junker's plane with the pilot he saw fairly open mountainous country from Yunnan to within twenty miles of the river when afforested mountains, with passable valleys, characterized the landscape, the sell being of the hue of several rainbows—brilliant reds, oranges, ochros, sepias, magentas, purples, with the green of young rice and other crops, added to that of a variety of greens of trees and other vegetation and rocks running from ochro to purples and greys, Farms fairly flamed, and nothing in Colorado or Arizona, the Painted Desert and the Grand 'Canyon notwithstanding, is a patch "on the colours scheme of this part of Yunnan and Szechuen, Nor is the red of the Little Gobi desert, or the purple of the Ala Shan, anything like the gorgeousness that' the farmers till in Yunnan, The Governor of Yunnan, General Yung Lung, was on the with "the Generalissimo—incidentally having his first journey in the air—and he was thrilled by what he saw of his province,
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