TRAIL OF DEAD MEN

Taranaki Daily News, 16 April 1935, Page 5

TRAIL OF DEAD MEN

COMMUNISTS IN RETREAT

DEATH OF LEADER CHUTEH

CHINESE REDS DEFEATED

DRIVE BY GOVERNMENT

By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.

Shanghai, April 14.

The wholesale nature of the Reds' retreat following the death of the leader Chuteh under the pressure of Government forces is indicated by the trail of dead Communist soldiers betvzeen Keeiyang and Lungli, where General Chiang Kai-Shek is successfully undertaking extermination of the Red marauders. The number of dead bodies strewn on the mountainside in possession of arms supports rumours that the leaders are falling into the hands of the Government troops, with the possibility of their disclosing. information. The Reds’ morale is reported to have been completely broken following Chuteh’s death. General Chiang Kai-Shek considers their defeat only a matter of time.

Two thousand;. Communists fully armed but not prepared to offer resistance have been captured, x Government troops declare that others are willing to follow suit providing the Government refrains from summary execution. The fate of the missionaries Messrs. A. Hayman, Auckland, and R. A. Bosshardt, who were captured by Kweichow Reds last August, is still unknown. It is' believed that both have been killed.