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Sporting a few pieces of crimson tinted clothes, the gala girl of Piccadilly said that she shan't be caught unprepared should the Harvard crew...
Last week, Chinese Communist newspapers announced almost daily executions. Four former Nationalist officers were sentenced to death in Canton. After the failure of a peasant revolt in Shantung, nine of the ringleaders were executed. In Toy-shan, Kwangtung Province, 165 guerrillas were captured. Chinese Red army headquarters said14,781 bandits had been killed last month in the Kwangsi mountains...
Died. General Ma Chan-shan, 65, onetime Chinese war hero; in Peking. Little, shaven-polled General Ma was both an illiterate, sharpshooting militarist (who bragged that he could shoot birds from a galloping horse) and a man of cultivated tastes (he fancied Mongolian silks and had staffmen read poetry aloud to him). Against Japan's march on Manchuria in 1931, he led the only serious resistance in North China to the invaders, then sold out and was briefly a puppet ruler...
While Chiang fought the northern warlords, Mao became a warlord in his own right. On Chingkan Shan, celebrated bandit mountain lair, he joined forces with the local outlaws, soon merged them in his new Red army.* It was a guerrilla force, highly mobile, terroristic, levying an ever-expanding countryside for recruits and supplies, fighting not for the ordinary warlord's booty but for a Red revolution within the Nationalist revolution...
Besides the Karens and the White Flag Communists, the government must still cope with Red Flag Communists, Yellow Band PVOs, and scattered Mon Shan...