Former item number 2793.

Note on verso: "6. 'Memorial to the dead fighters of the Red Army', is the legend inscribed on this massive bullet-monolith erected by the Soviet Government in Juikin, Kiangsi, to the men killed in action. This picture was taken on February 2, 1934, the same year that the Reds withdrew from Kiangsi to the northwest. Heavy casualities resulted during Chiang Kai-shek's final Fifth campaign, a total of no less than 50,000 being admitted by the Red Army high command. In this campaign, Chiang's deadliest work was done by imported airbombers, tanks, heavy artillery (and even gas in a few places), and by new tactics of 'defensive-offensive' consisting of a vast network of blockhouses gradually extended from Chiang's base in toward the inner Soviet districts, all connected by machine-gun fire, along with economic blockade. The first four campaigns against the Reds failed, and the tactics in the fifth campaign were advised by Germany's famous General Von Seekt who organized the Reichswehr, in 1934 chief of Nanking's big staff of German advisors and now Commander-in-chief of Hitler's new army. The heaviest sufferers under the heavy onslaught of the fifth campaign were the peasantry, thousands of whose villages were completely destroyed by Nanking's bombardments of heavy artillery. T'ang Leang-li in 'Suppressing Communistt-Banditry in China' admits that more than 1,000,000 peasants were killed during the struggle to exterminate the Sovietized Kiangsi peasantry. Copy of blueprint original by Edgar Snow, first available."

Note on photograph in Chinese.