Several Communist. magazines and autobiographies of Gen. Mao Che-tung and Gen. Chu Teh, both of the Eighth Route Army, were prohibited from sale locally. Questioned con cerning the activities of the Communists in. the province, an ofoer declared that "Feng Vu" or "Wind and Rain." a weekly Communist magazine, is stilt published here, but is {0 be censored by the Provincial Kuomintang Headquarters.
At Yungeheng in eastern Honan, jand Sihua in southern Honan, the offlecr added, they had organized various national salvation bodies, such ax the student self-defence corps, women's corps, children's corps and adults' corps. At Tsiyuan in northern Honan, the officer continued, a part of the Communist army, under Kuo Ta-fu, were engaged in JAghting Japanese, while another part, formerly stationed at Peiyang Jeentral Honan, were reorganized as [regular troops:
Air Defence Bureau Reorganized The Air Defence Bureau of the provines was reorganized on April 11, with Gen. Cheng Chien, chairman of the province, as the commander, and Gen. Chu Ying-sheng, as chief of staff. <A press conference was held, lurider the auspices of the Air Defence Bureau, on April 14, when Gen. Chu spoke on air defence measures.
In this connection it may _be interesting to reali that on January, 10 when Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek and Gen. Pai Chung-list arrived here by plane, the head of the Alr Defence Bureau had not received Jany information beforehand, and mistook the planes as Japanese. The Urgent alt raid signal was sounded, Jand the anti-aiveraft guns went into faction. It was, indeed, extremely. fortunate that the antinaireraft guns Jseored misses or something. terrible might have happened. The next day, the oficial, it is reported, was removed from his position Weihaiwei, Apr. 18.
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