Emphasizing that the military and political aspects of the hostilities between China and Japan were of equal Importance, General Chen Chen, Minister of Political Affairs at the headquarters of General Chiang Kaishek, and concurrently Commander-in-chief of the Chinese forees on the south bank of the Yangtze River, today announced the formation of political departments in. the various Chinese army units at the front.
Members of the Central Executive Committee of the Kuomintang, he stated, would act as heads of the departments.
General Chen pointed out that the anticnorth expedition of the Kuomintang, in 1927, owed its success largely to the work of the Army Political Department, which, "however, had almost disappeared following the conclusion of the expedition.
He declared that to keep the Chi-note Army in step with the world's progress, and also to foster closer relations between the Chinese army and the populace, it was essential that the Chinese army enlarge its scope and that a higher status be given to the work of those in the Political Department.
General Chen stated that he expected to complete the training of 50,000 political workers in the Army within three years.
He outlined the work of the Army Political Department ax follows 1, Intelligence; 2. Post Omce; Transportation: 4. First Aid Stations: 5. Refugee Stations; 6. Army operative Stores; 7. Army Clubs; 8 Supervisory Unils fo maintain Army discipline; 9. Propayanda; 10. The publication of a daily newspaper the front to be known as the "War Front Daily."—Reuter.
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