It seems herd that the smallest house in London should not escape the bombs. This extraordinary little dwelling stands in Hyde Park Gate. It consists of a front door, a passage 3 ft. wide, a flight of stairs, and one long room or. the first floor just 4 ft. wide, and nothing else. How it came to be built or why no one knows. Some date it as early Victcrian, some as even Jacobean, Some say it was built for the servant i the adjoining house, some that it was put up by a man who had a legal left him on condition that he kept Armies in Shantung a house in London; some that it was built for a dwarf. Now it is owned The second lost territory is held ty three armies of provincial troops under Gen. Vu Hsueh-chung, whose headquarters are in the Ishui prefecture in southern Shantung. Under him are two vice-commanders, Admiral Shen Huang-lien (former Gar-risen Commander of Tsingtao and now acting governor of Shantung) and Gen, Han Te-chin. These three arm-fes are scattered over Shantung and northern Kiangsu; and interspersed among them in the most haphazard way are numerous Communist regular and irregular detachments under the general control of Gen. Hsin Hsiang-chien- In this Communist command are included several detachments of the now notorious Fourth Route Army, which were stationed in northern Kiangsu. 1t was some of these detachments which come into armed conflict with one of Gen, Vu Hsueh-chung's armies (89th) last autumn. The revolt gradually spread until the split between the Communists and Chung king assumed serious dimensions.
We next verne to the second war zone (Shansi and Shensi) which is under the nominal control of Gen-Yen Hsi-shan, whose headquarters are somewhere in the southwest corner of Shansi, The areas occupied by the various Chinese forces are, in this case, fairly clearly defined:—
In south Shansi from about the bend of the Yellow River stretching eastwards to the Shansi-Hopei border are numerous Central Government divisions.
Tu the southwest part of the province, between the Tung-Pu_Railway and the Yellow River are Shansi provincial troops under General Yen's direct command, while in northern Shansi and Shensi are various Communist groups under Chu Teh and the Communist eneral headquarters at Yenan, rams 5
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