THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 31, 1988
CHINESE ADMINISTER HUGE NORTH CHINA AREA BEHIND JAPANESE LINES
Peiping, May 25-A complete | communism is taught to Chinese Government system, work- and adults alike,
ing on orthodox provincial lines and in daily touch with Hankow, is *functioning smoothly inside the Ja- panese lines over half Hopei Pro- vince, a large section of Shansi and a part of Chahar.
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Life Proceeds Normally
Magistrates are functioning in the area, lesser courts are working and cultivation is going on normally, the traveller states.
Daily contact is kept up by radio with Hankow and throughout the area there is a passable telephone between system now working, sometimes to within 5 miles of the Japanese gar- risons along the railways.
A British traveller, just returned from a visit to the area the Pingham and Tsinpu railways, describes the organization of this Government as being directed from Shansi. Its leaders are leaders of the Red Army operating in North China and officials of the regime in existence before the hostilities broke out.
The mechanism of the prehostili- tics form of provincial government has been taken over, the only dif- fence being that a mild form of
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A post office functions and prints its own stamps, bearing the Kuo- mintang White Sun device.
Even education is being promot- ed. No middle schools have yet been organised, but some primary schools are being organised, and these are being well attended, the traveller adds.
Main roads leading into the mid- dle area of Hopei have been cut to prevent entry of Japanese troops, but roads inside the area are in a bad state and cars are able to do no more than about 10 miles hour.
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Peiping merchants manage to enter the territory and, the Bri- tish traveller reports, are able to travel in the area with large sums of money in safety.
The areas are organized for military purposes. Village self de- The Under-Secretary of Foreign it is claimed, and all men between fence corps total about 150,000 men
Affairs told the Commons that at 16 and 35 receive a few hours of the meeting of the chairman's sub-military training every week.
The mobile units, consisting part- committee of the non-intervention ly of reorganized Chinese soldiers committee last Thursday, very and members of the Chinese Com- considerable progress had been munist army, are reported to total
made.
|50,000 men in the three provinces.
They have been armed in strange ways. The Red army of course All goveruments concerned had
came in with weapons. Many others now accepted the British formula, have been armed by the peasants furnishing definition of the "sub-selling to the new authorities wea- stantial progress-in-withdrawal. pons which are discarded by of foreign volunteers provided for in the British plan of July 14 last. troops retreating before the Japan-
ese advance last summer and hid- den by the peasants. These have Three new proposals had been put forward last week by the Unit-been bought up on a scale ranging ed Kingdom representative, design-to $20 for a sub-machinegun. ed to dispose of difficulties which had arisen in connection with the
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date for restoration of observation, The traveller describes seeing men balancing of the sea and land ob-armed with modern rifles, hand servation schemes and the method grenades, plenty of sub-machineguns of withdrawing volunteers.
and a few trench mortars stated to be effective up to 1,500 yards. These proposals had been ac-few Japanese field guns have been cepted by all representatives pre-captured but these guerilla forces sent with the exception of the So-do not know how to use them. Some viet representative.
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arms and ammunition have been captured from Japanese forces.
Small arsenals, have been estab- lished and turn out ammunition: and hand grenades, at the rate of 200 a day, and also repair weapons, including trench mortarseed
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Mr Butler added that further ous enclave frequently attack small
The death took place here yester-sion of the Chinese Dragon, Boat meetings of the sub-committee Japanese garrisons on and near the have been fixed for this week when railway and are stated to have re- day of Rear-Admiral William Rawle Festival, for the benefit of the vic- of tims of Japanese bombings in Can- he earnestly hoped, the progress cently repulsed two or three Ja- Shoemaker, a former Director recorded at the last meeting, would panese expeditions sent into their War Plans Operations at the Navy, ton. All proceeds from admissions
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the Soviet Government, and reply. In return, many villages near the ing to a supplementary question, railways have been burned out by he said the British Government Japanese forces in order to dispose Postage Stamps of the new issue were attempting to obtain the, ad- of bases for guerillas from which to H. M. King George VI in the de- herence of the Russian Govern- attack the railway and railway nominations 5 dollars, 10 dollars will ment, British Wireless..
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will go to the relief of wounded civi- lians.
"Mirzapore" left Moji on the 27th instant and is due here on the 4th prox. at about 6 a.m.