COMBATING “REDS.”
FIERCE FIGHTING IN CHINA. Further desperate fighting has occurred between the advanced troops of the famous 19th Route Army and the Communists in the isolated mountainous province of Fukien. The British warship Wishart has proceeded to Foochow. American and Japaneso warships have also been ordered there to protect nationals. The Communists have captured Yen-ping, or the City of Eternal Peace, which has a population of _ j, oX). All foreigners have left the city safely in junks, and have passed down the sinuous Min-kwang (Snake) River. s The Communists are believed to ba the same marauders who beheaded the two British missionaries, Misses Nettleton and Harrison, three years ago, after cutting off their fingers, in order to hasten the ransom payment. Government forces are massing in Kien-ning, the centre of the tea country, in readiness for a general attack on Yen-ping.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 254, 23 September 1933, Page 7
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