The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-20
New Conditions and NeU Tactics
Of the Red Army in Soviet China

the Communist Party of China and
the Red Army, it was months ago
decided to call new tactics into play.
Position Shifted
The first practical application of
these new tactics was expressed in
the successful shift in position and
line of march of the Seventh Army
Corps Of the Red Army from the
Central Soviet District toward the
provinces of Fukien and Chekiang,
which, as is well known, by dint of
the entire strength of the Seventh
and Tenth Army Corps of the Red
Army, as well as the Red Partisan
Troops, succeeded in a new extern
siVe Soviet and also Partisan dis
trict on the borders of the provinces
of Fukien, Chekiang, Kiangsi and
AnWhei.
The second practical application
of these new tactics may be un-
derstood from the fact that in Au-
gust of this year the sixth Army
Corps of the Red Army undertook
an expedition away from the Cen
trail Soviet District toward Human
and Kweichow Provinces, through
which, as may be known, direct
connection might be struck be-
tween the Second Army Corps of
the Red Army of Ho-Lun and the
Sixth Army on the one hand, and
also the Second, Sixth and Fourth
on the other hand, all of which Gre
ated afresh new favorable condi-
tons for the struggle of all the
great battalions of the Red Army
from Kiangsi and Fukien to Shensi
and Szechuen.
Main Forces Face West
The third practical application of
this new tactic is the most recent
change in position of the main
fighting forces of the Red Army
away from the main points of sup
port in the Central Soviet District
toward westerly direction, and, &C.
cording to Japanese and imperial
1st sources, toward the Province of
Szechuan. The dispatches of Kuom-
intang and imperialist newspapers
subsequently report that the greater
part of the fighting force of the Red
Army, under the command of Com
rades Mao-Tse-Dung, Tschu-Dai
and Pej-Dej-Chuje, has already vic
toriously broken through the power
full Human Kwangtung front, has
annihilated many divisions of the
kwangtung and Human troops and
now is on the advance toward the
east and central districts of Kwei-
chow.
In the light of these new tactics
the leadership of the Communist
Party and of the Red Army recog-
nized that the surrender of partial,
or even considerable stretches of ter
ritory was necessary. The temporary
loss of few Soviet cities is without
! doubt, from our old point of view,
a grevious blow and a regrettable
damage. But it was for that reason
that the Chinese Red Army not only
embraced new extensive territories
but also created basis for wrestling
such new powerful victories for the
Soviet revolution in China as will
place all previous achievements in
the shade.
Enemies Were Aware
Our enemies are also aware of
this, and it is no accident that when
the newspapers of the Kuomintang
the imperialists and the White
Guardists publish their accounts OF
the victories" of the Marking
troops, as for example; the occupa-
ton of the old Soviet capital by
white bandits, in the same breath a
pessimistic note creeps into their
perspective of what Chank- Kai-
Shek will do next.
Thus, for instance, the Shanghai
correspondent of the Shimbun Rem
go Agency, parallel with reporting
the occupation of Juikin, announces
that the undertaking of operations
against the Red Army in the neigh
borhood of Juikin alone cost the
Marking regime approximately one
billion chinese dollars.
1t was necessary to conduct five
campaigns against the Soviet dis
trict, in which at one time COG, 0o(
men were mustered into service ir
the field. Or take another example