Evening star., 1938-01-27
REDS ANN|H|LATE
JAPANESE FORCES
Communists and Peasant
Irregu|ars Are Reported
Victorious in North.
BACKGROUND

WHdL appears 10 Oe pQSStDe 6IO-
mission OF 1O0,OO0,0OO Chinese to
dictates OF Japan's Army carefully
hides underground patriotism.
Many In North China are coming
rapidly under Communist domina-
ton as the Communist field forces
reorganize them wherever they 90.
The Reds are influencing Chinese
patriotic student organizations,
many of tvhich remain secretly ac-
tue as propagandists. Peasant
leagues are organizing and at least
100 societies are reported stirring
the nation to action through trreg-
ular warfare and other resistance.
By the Associated Press.
PEKING, China, Jan. 27-China's
Red legions and peasant irregulars are
on the march against Japanese in the
vast North China area.
Concentrating swiftly, attacking
swiftly and dispensing swiftly, they
have struck time and again at Japa-
nese communications lines and Japa-
neSe garrisons.
Authentic details Of this warfare in
the frozen northern provinces, where
the Chinese-Japanese conflict began,
were brought to Japanese-conquered
Peking today by foreigners who ar
rived from the war areas.
They reported that during January
Chinese lrregulars along the Peking-
Hankow and. Chengtai Railroads wiped
out small detachments of japanese
troops in at least 20 instances.
Sallies Of the irregulars interrupted
traffic on the Japanese controlled por-
ton of the Peking- Hankow line, one
Of China's main north-south rail ar
teries, on an average Of three times
a week.
Japanese garrisons at Tnghsien,
100 miles southwest of here, were
annihilated on three different occa-
sions.
The Chinese Red Army spurred ir-
regulars to new attacks by holding
military congress Of all guerrilla
forces at Fuping. in Western Hopeh
Province near Chinas Great Wall.
One Of the decisions Of the congress
was to stamp out banditry and looting.
Communists Organize Peasantry.
Communists are actively engaged
in organizing the Hopeh Province
peasantry. Ten miles back of the
railroad they have plastered the
countryside with posters saying:
Down With Japan!'
It was believed here that transfer
Of japanese troops to Southern Shan
tung Province for an attack on China's
Lunghai Railway lifeline had precip-
itated the outbreak of irregular at
tackS.
Shanghai dispatches quoted
Chinese military leaders as an
nouncing that guerrilla warfare on
widespread battlefronts had brought
increasing success against the jap
anese invaders, and prevented jap
anese from attempting further ad.
vances.
(The nations rejuvenated air
force also played part in the
increased resistance. The Japanese
attack on the Lunghai and Tientsin-
Pukow Railways, which cross at
Suchow, apparently was stalemated.
Japanese were said to have re-
ceived 10000 reinforcements at
Wuhu,
because efforts to bring in food
were blocked by the Japanese, the
International Committee for the
Marking Safety Zone asserted, $780,
600 Chinese refugees in the former
capital were facing famine condi-
tions)
The foreigners who reached Peking
said japanese retaliated for the at
tacks on Chuyang by burning three
villages near Tinghsien and killing
100 persons. When the japanese re-
turned from this punitive foray, ir-
regulars isolated and killed two truck
loads of Japanese troops.