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PARTY NOW LEADS
IN CHINA
3 Million
Fighters
Tribune's Special Correspondent
BOMBAY.—"Centre of gravity" in China
has passed to the Communist-led Border
Region and 19 liberated areas, according to
reports given to the Chinese Communist
Party's Seventh Congress.
Chinese Communist leader, Mao Tse-tung, reported
that the Party now had 1,210,000 members,
making it the largest outside the Soviet; 910,000 regular
troops in the Eighth Route and New Fourth Armies,
the South China Anti-Japanese Brigade and other
Communist-led regular forces, plus 2,200,000 in the
People's Volunteer Corps.
MAO reported that 95,500,000
people were now under
Communist leadership in China.
The Communist-led and liberated
reas were distributed over 19 proinces
in Manchuria, North, Central
nd South China, Mao Tse-Tung
aid. % . ,
Mao, urging closer Chinese relaions
with the Soviet, expressed
hanks for help ' which has always
een rendered by the Soviet Governent
and the Soviet people in China s
ar of liberation." He welcomed
arshal Stalin's rebuke to Japanese
ggressors anc Soviet denunciation
f the Non-Aggression Pact with
apan.
Soviet's Role 7
Mao Tse-tung made this signifiant
reference to the Soviet in the
acific :
"We believe that without the
participation of the Soviet Union,
it is not possible to reach a final
and thorough settlement of the
Pacific question."
Mao, who chaired the Seventh
Congress, declared that in China's
liberated areas all essential policies
of the anti-Japanese National United
Front had been put into practice.
Governments were popularly elected;
there was co-operation between
Communist Party members and representatives
of other parties and
groups.
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"These," said Mao, "are really
coalition governments which have
mobilised the entire people.
"Chinese liberated areas have become
the democratic pattern for
China and the centre of gravity and
co-operation with our Allies to drive
out the Japanese aggressors and to
liberate the Chinese people."
Mao added that as soon as the
Communist-led troops received modern
equipment they would become
"still more invincible and able to
defeat the Japanese aggressors."
"Mikhailovitches"
Mao said that among Japan's
800,000 puppet troops were 500,000
Kuomintang troops, including 60 to
0 Kuomintang generals.
"The Kuomintang reactionary
e'ements," he said, "are supporting
these puppet troops morally and
organisationally in order that they
may co-operate with the Japanese
aggressors to attack the liberated
areas."
There were still 797,000 Kuomintang
troops blockading the Border
Region and liberated areas, Mao said.
"Many people," said Mao, "know
that there was a Mikhailovitch in
Yugoslavia, but they never hear that
there are scores of Mikhailovitches
in China."
Mao let the pro-Japanese Kuomintang
section know that the Communists
would not take attacks lying down.
Mao promised, however, that as soon
as a democratic coalition government
and united high command were formed
in China, Communist-led troops in
liberated areas would at once be
handed over to them.
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