Edgar Snow photograph of Xu Haidong and Wu Huanxian, 1937

Item — Box: 150, Folder: 18

Identifier: MSS 2219 Series 5 Sub-Series 2 Item 7339

Staff Only

Dates

Creation: 1937

Conditions Governing Access

Open for public research.

Conditions Governing Use

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Extent

1 photograph : black an white ; 8 x 10 cm

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Other Finding Aids

Item- and file-level inventory available online.http://files.lib.byu.edu/ead/XML/MSS2219.xml

General

Note on verso: "THE GENTLEMAN ON THE RIGHT is Hsu Hai-tung, Commander of the 15th Red Army Corps, now stationed in Ninghsis, Northwest China. For Hsu Hai-tung, dead or alive, Chiang Kai-shek recently offered $50,000 in a handbill dropped over Red lines in Ninghsia by airplane, while I was with Hsu. Hsu (and P'eng Teh-huai, his superior commander) promptly ordered the thousands of handbills collected and saved to use the blank side for paper, because of the paper shortage in the Red Army. These Red officers then impudently printed the "Red Army Daily" on the side opposite the reward-offer, which was distributed to the soldiers, to their amusement. Seated at the left of Hsu Hai-tung is Wu Huan-hsien, Political Commissar of the 25th Army, who was killed in Kansu in 1935. Reproduction of a valuable old photograph, by Edgar Snow."