The Archive · 1937

Willing to Surrender

Now having been driven to the north-western corner of the country where livelihood is diMleult and. where foodstuff is score, the communist bandits began to spread reports of their alleged willingness to surrender.

The late General Chu will be given a military funeral in conformity With the Ailitary Rites: Regulations. The decision was made yesterday at 1 Joint meeting of high military ofials of the Central Government.

In accordance with Article 137 the' Military Rites Regulations, all subordinates in the organs directly under the late General Chu will wear mourning bands for seven days, beginning from yesterday.

General Wu Ssu-yn, deputy Officer in-Charge of the Military Affairs Commission, was instructed by General Chiang Kai-shek, chairman of the Commission, to take temporary charge of the ofice loft vacant by the death of General Chu Peisteh,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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