ABSTRACT
The author said "the Peking plain, which had never before seen a Communist, is now full between the railway lines of plundering Red bands whose tactics consist of falling suddenly upon the weaker Japanese posts in order to supply themselves with arms and ammunition. The local inhabitants are suffering terribly, on the one hand from the Reds' depredations and on the other from the severe Japanese reprisals". Actually the sight of Peking was the most painful to an old friend of China like himself. The warships and fleets of transports, the trenches and the roar of guns, the bombing raids and the great conflagrations in Shanghai were full of excitement and rapidly changing interest. Even the smoking ruins and the refugee camps retained something of war's grim dynamics. The great Central University in Peking is a barracks for Japanese troops.
