Peiping. if wot a besieged anyhow like an island in unrest, tighting. if perhaps on 4 minor scale, going on spasmodically all directions, and sometimes not So far from the city oftlier. Its com= munfeations with the outside world, except by the tine to "lent sin. hays higo. become more uneertai gent trunk tine te the south the Peiping-Hankov tine, has been interrupted by guerilla the same applies. though degree. to the Tien Pukow line, while even the Peipi Kalgun line, which had hitherto joyed charmed existence, hax also een raided in recent months.
In the plains of central Hope' between the two rear trunk lines the Chines roun at large, a kind of tacit agiooment having. apparently een, come 10 between the two sides, i which the Japanese restrict them= ree tw the immediate garrisoning a few of the larger towns, leavin the protection of the railways to Chinese levies from Mfanchot tot the North China Pacification 'And this works fairly well, as. barring sudden outbursts of violence on the "part of the Free Chinese forces, the former manage to arrange things with their opponents, so. tha they' themselves are not attacked while as {0 attacking the "enemy themselves, they do not dream of it.
Toast noi on their own. Even east Hopei, the former so-called "demili-{arlzed zone," which was alway's con. sidered almost as completely pacified fas any part of adjoining Manchoukuo, has in recent months een, completely the Chinese, for their part fall to act to this theory, and gunmen shoot Japanese gendarmes, or harassed villagers ambush Japanese patrols oF the new levies mutiny, the indignation of the Japanese at this base in-latitude knows no bounds, and they punishment on the' quiet in-general public. Thereby they ly cotise more widespread dissatis-jon ni create a fresh and fertile for doctrines of the Communists. Were they not hageridden by this fatal theory of the Japanese-loving opposition, and might have to some modus vivendi,
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