"The Red menace has been severe for the past three years, especially in northern Szechuen, where the country was badly over-run," said Captain 'A J, Brace, a member of the United Chuteh of Canada under appointment fo tie National Committee of the YMCA, who has arrived here from Chengiu, where he has been connect-fed vith work among the students for the Inst seven years.
"the Reds, he said, during their occupation two years. ago, ate every thing up and took all the seed grain. "It will be very hard to get conditions back to normal," he continued. "his year the province suffered from 'a heavy drought, with the result that there is now a severe famine in the Paoning area, where it is reported over a. thousand people have died of Starvation and that many have been reduced to cooking and eating some of the corpses."
Diseussing some of the Red scares, the mentioned that at one time the Communist armies had advanced within "two days of the city of Chengtu, which was hastily evacuated, "They almost broke through, but were stopped bY General Chiang Kal-shek and his troops: ho brought many fresh soldiers and a number of aeroplanes fand drove them back into the moun tains, "After Chiang Kai-shek lett, they returned and caused a lot of trouble inthe Lipan valley, where they murdered the inhabitants, razed Whole villages, and lett a trait of Dloodshea and' black ruin wherever they wont, This winter they gathered strength and attacked Tachioni, on
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