CHINA: Spring Comes to Chiang Kai-shek

Grimly last week President Chiang Kai-shek prepared for May Day, rampage day for Reds.

In Shanghai dragnets carefully spread for months by the Government's secret agents were jerked tight in a series of raids. Police seized caché after Communist caché of rifles, ammunition, machine guns, seven complete field radio sets, a supply of artillery range finders and military binoculars, electric batteries for igniting dynamite, four printing presses, 500,000 Communist leaflets and documents.

The documents showed that in Kiangsi, one of the five interior provinces where Communist...

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