When the Communists arrived in Hohow on April 16 the town was deserted "and there was nothing for them {o eat, However they used this an. objective lesson of their extreme poverty and lectured, the few old inhabitants on the advantages of Communism. 'They now had, what they wanted and what they' have een seeking for months, namely, a road south. The Yalung enters the Yangtze about thirty miles west of Huellichow and at the point where it forms the boundary between Sze-chun and Yunnan.
'Last year Chu. and Mao on their way from Kingsi to Sikang passed Hueillchow and entered the Chien-chang. valley. Should the Reds continue down the Yalung to the point' where It enters the Yang-{zo. Chuteh and his gang will again be in familiar country and probably very close to Ho and Hsiao's 'Armies, But what about the unfortunate Tallan and Spanish priests who are in their hands?' Pere Pegoraro, the Italian, is a fellow close on seven feet high, and was last seen When the Reds" were evacuating Tienchuon. Whether the priests were taken by Hsu and Chu is not known.
"The withdrawal of a large number of (reaps from the north Danba Yoad show that -the danger from Tt may be possible that some captain on the Yangtze may decide to retire very suddenly to his native village somewhere in the far north of Scotland, We have no dea when and where the bank notes will become public property but the muddy old Yangtze should be of some Interest for the next few weeks.
Fortunately the other _sevenicen undies, of bank nolos will satisfy the immediate demands of the Hunan soldiers in their campaign against the Communists.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.