The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-20
By WAN MIN

THE japanese news agency, Shin
1 bun Rengo, reports from Shang-
hal Nov. IA: THE increasing main
fighting forces of the Chinese Red
Army on Nov. 10 abandoned Juikin
up to now the capital of central
Soviet China-and took their posi-
tons in the direction of Szechuan.
The surrender of the city followed
in conformity with a previously
prepared plan, whereby all admin
istrative buildings and military
quarters, including the central bank
and the Military Academy, were
completely evacuated. The strategic
points of Juti and Hweichang, west
of Juikin, still remain in the hands
of the Red Army"
Although not yet confirmed by
our own sources of information this
report from an agency of Japanese
imperialism may be considered as
very likely true. These strategic
measures of the Red Army of
China are neither startling nor I'M
expected for us, since this step, SO
loudly proclaimed in the dispatches
lying before me, had been long fore
seen by the high command of the
Chinese Red Army as. an essential
condition arising out of new condi-
tons of struggle
The first circumstance from
which springs the new tactics of
China's Red Army is the struggle
against the new military plan of
Chang Kai-shek and Seeckt in
their sixth expedition against the
Chinese Soviets.
The chief substance and purpose
of this new military plan may be
summarized in this, that Chang
Kai-shek and Seeckt, through
large-scale aerial and artillery bonn
bardments, hand in hand with
gradual advance and the building
of Notifications, aimed to drive the
Red Armies further and further out
of the huge areas now under their
jurisdiction and attempt to press
them into small zones, in order to
encircle the Soviet Districts on all
sides, and then destroy the troops
of the Red Army. This, then, is
the chief object of the sixth cam
paign of Chang Kai-shek against
the north-central district, against
which alone over rs divisions of
regular troops have been pressed
into service, almost all of the bat
talions under the personal COM
mand of Chang, and over two
thirds of the officially registered
divisions in all China (Which en-
brace SO divisions altogether).
Foreign Experts
Guiding military operations and
war technique in the battle against
the central Soviet Districts, soil
cited by Chang Kai-shek and
placed at his service by the i'm
perialist powers, are hundreds of
German and Japanese military ex-
perts, not to mention hundreds of
American and Italian aviators.
Despite all this, in the course of
single years heroic. armed strug-
gle, the Chinese Red Army has won
mighty victories over its opponent,
as, for example, in the battles in the
central-north district. Chang Kali
shek's army lost over 100000 men,
900 to $4,000 killed, 10000 to
$4,000 wounded and 10000 to $4,000
in prisoners. The Fourth Corps of
the Red Army in Szechuan-Shensi
was swelled from $4,000 to 100000
men, etc., but as a result of mill
tary and technical weaknesses Clack
of airplanes and armored trains) it
was unable to smash through the
fortified fronts of the enemy quickly
enough
In order to render altogether in
effective the carefully laid plans of
Chang Kai-shek and Seeckt for the
complete surrounding of the Cen
trail Soviet Districts and the ami
hilation of the ranks of the Red
Army, and in order to be able to
establish all the necessary condi-
tions for wringing decisive and
full victory over the sixth campaign
against the Central Soviet Districts,
as well as to create favorable pre-
liminary conditions for furthering
the ultimate victory of the Soviet
revolution under the leadership of