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ie i et aut forces, ete for se P a 2 ee + a __. The success of the Border Region and 4 - . Liberated Areas in maintaining them- Japanese blockade is sufficiently testie fied to by the surprise of foreign visite. ors to these places, formerly the. pote: ‘ d - est. Ia China. . They. expested to find * i ~ cae . the “Communist cred - P + EAND MINS MADE OF STONE are used by the Min and rc ae world # : ’ "gia) echere then ie a shoringe ef metal. Even the metal mines are mode from found democratic united front armieg: - roops fo * “old temple balls melted down, wet +} viv cu... 2° ama governments in compact ¥ vicinity. PR ae ane clear of Japanese, where the ves, and “The 16 anti _ “The tendency te concentration of dhan elsewhere in the country, the, > around bases established a the Eighth Route land ownership is an aftermath of the _troopa were in better condition and the . oute and_ and New Pourth amies have elected present war..,. The buyers are land- Jevel of mobilization was much highet, ’ oecupled _ governments of aligrades from the vil- | owners, capitalists, war profileers and ‘This had occurred despite unremitting © atriots of ‘age up, drawn fam People's Councils top political and military officers, Im io perce warfare and the Liberated . 2 them. in which all legifktive and executive Kwantung province arere are Dow MARY ‘Areas were expanding. 5 =. 9. 30 cir ranks . . power is vested. “Mie number of elected landlords whe pessess 16,000 mew ef After eight years of war in Chins sere, but officials is sever hundred thousand. and or more (Central Dally News, =~ tne population under the rule of the men, and. ‘The policy of theOommunist Party is . Jan. 9). In Kwangsi land sales are se Kyomintang in “Pree Chins” has 22° mot to put up camidates for more than = extensive that many middlemen shrunk from 400,000,000 to perhaps. '. one-third of thessate in any elected have become L A town bead 100,000,000, while the Japenese have i man im Suech cenfesses that he 900,000,000 and the balance .of 90,000,000 “, tankes hundreds candsof dellars. the enemy also once controlled = oT a year ass on Tand Urabisfers live tm the Uberated bases TQ . (Ta Kung Pao, Joly 25), In Yungteng, ‘tary, Liberated China, bas engageg- , .Kanse, there were absentee land- °-. _ many 08 60 percent of the total Jap- + 90,000,000 ° yeally answers Secneeds of S number _— this diversity larnot prejudiced isc thou- but, instead, stugthened . _ 000 armed The Econonti:.:.- 3 or Home eos aE ar best ; <-" *Dhe writer remar most of the |” 2 nghtiog | ' organized masewerement of Peasants’, © *--- aa "ett 8 sea a . weakness, : they want vistory to which their