For Japanese, the Gong!

In Hankow, the Chinese de facto capital, last week appeared Miss Agnes Smedley, a U. S. author who was first widely heard of during the kidnapping of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek (TIME, Jan. 4, 1937 et seq.). At that time when the Communists needed someone to broadcast their propaganda in English from Sian, she was put on the air. Fond of dressing like a Red Army soldier with red, five-pointed star in cap, Agnes Smedley announced last week that she had hurt her back, therefore would write a book on the Chinese Communists instead of marching further with them against the Japanese in North China. She reported last week that:

P: The only foreigners with Communist guerrilla forces are a German instructor and a Turkish doctor. "The Chinese generally believed I was a Soviet staff officer!" laughed Agnes Smedley. "I didn't see a single Russian!"

P: When the Communists found that Japanese soldiers who were captured and returned to their own lines were executed by the Japanese authorities, the Communists stopped holding Japanese prisoners, sent back as many as possible.

P: In cold, 30DEG below zero, Chinese Communist soldiers without shoes harassed Japanese outposts day and night.

P: At night the Chinese guerillas raided Japanese bivouacs, killing right and left, but when this was impossible they awakened and annoyed the Japanese by suddenly beating gongs.

This file is automatically generated by a robot program, so reader's discretion is required.