Hankow, Mar. 12.
Friction between the Kuomintang and the Chinese Communist Party is becoming daily mote acute. The Kuomintang authorities are particularly perturbed by the large scale propaganda being conducted by the Chinese Communist Party.
For example, the circulation of "Hsin Hua Jih Pao," local official organ of the Chinese Communist Party, has reached the figure of over 50,000 copies daily. The circulation ai the paper in Hankow is comparatively small but what is alarming the Chinese Government authorities is that agents of the Chinese Communist Party are pushing vigorously the circulation of this paper in all provinces especially in small towns and villages.
At the same time, a number of booklets such as "Autobiography of Mao Tse-tung," "Biography of Chu Teh, "History of the Long March of the Chinese Red Army," "The Anti-Japanese 8th Route Army" are being sold everywhere, as no more than a few cents is being asked for each copy of these.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.