Chungking, Aug. 22.
The anti-communist forces, with the aid of bombing, planes, have been making considerable progress during the last few days, according to ports from Headquarters. General Fan Shao-tsen's troops are said to have captured the city of Lifan on August 21, Sungpan is well guarded and General Hu Chung-nan, who is in command, is establishing a reputation as a military commander with firletdciplinary control over his The inhabitants are on good terms with the soldiers and the cir confidence has been enhanced by the news that the Reds have actually abandoned their intention of taking the place, although they have destroy-fed several sections of the Sungpan-'Mowhslen road, thus cutting oft communications between the two places.
General Chiang Kai-shek's departure for Nanking on August 14 aroused some interest. He was expected {0 return as soon as the political conference there was finished, Madam Chiang. Kal-shek, who accompanied him, has had a very strenuous tine in Szechuen and Yunnai expected that she would take the opportunity to recuperate in Shang-hal before rejoining: the Generalis-
The Generalissimo has issued a circular memorandum to the people of the frontier regions of Sikang, Tibet and Kokonor exhorting them to take up arms against the communist~ bandits whose evil activities are so prejudicial to the common good, The Temporary Headquarters of the Generalissimo in Chenglu have Jgsued memorial badges bearing the characters "Be reverent to your Fatherland" to residents in Chengtu who are ready to return to and rehabilitate their native districts reclaimed from communist occupation.
The embargo on the exportation of flee has been lifted by the Szechuen Government in order to enable the flobd-stricken provinces to buy their "food supplies in Szechuen, The prescription of capital punishment for military and Government officials found guilty of manufacturing, morphia has been reiterated recent Government order,
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