Before the 1937 incident there was 10 Red menace in north China excess in the minds.of Japanese militarists, To every action' there is an equal und opposite reaction, and avery real! one now exists, In the absence of Central Government officials. the whole countryside has been organized into Red "communities, all bitterly antiapanese. They are determined prevent the economic exploitation of their country.
Efforts (0 raise and train Chinese troops for the maintenance of internat order have been distinctly disappoint-Ing. The armed gendarmerie of Cost Hopet promptly mutinied on the cute break of hostilities and massacred the inhabitants of Tungchow before disbanding itself. Where the same sys~ tem has been tried from Peiping to Canton the troops have proved ui-
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