More on long march<\/p>\n
I would like to add to the article in the March 16 edition of
\nThe Jakarta Post, titled Ailing 'Little Mao' seeks paternity
\ntruth after 68 years. Bill Smith wrote that Ed Jocelyn and Andy
\nMcEwen are following the same 368-day, 9,000-kilometer route as
\nthe 4,000 survivors of 80,000 communist troops who left Yudu in
\nthe eastern JiangXi province in October 1934.<\/p>\n
The total number of Central Communist Party (CCP) members and
\nfollowers mobilized to evacuate the JiangXi Soviet government on
\nOct. 16, 1934 were generally accepted as about 100,000 and of
\nwhich only about 20,000 survived and arrived in Yenan on Oct. 20,
\n1935, in the epic 9,000-km long march in 368 days, or averaging
\nalmost 25 km a day.<\/p>\n
The long march crossed 12 provinces, 24 rivers and 18 mountain
\nranges, with five perennially snowcapped, including the almost
\nimpassable terrain in the mountains of GuiZhou, Yunnan, Tibet and
\nSichuan, fighting beside one million KMT soldiers and also 10
\nenveloping warlords in 10 provinces, averaging a skirmish a day.<\/p>\n
American journalist Edgar Snow, in the book Red Star over
\nChina, commented that Hannibal's march over the Alps looked like
\na holiday excursion beside it. Also Lin Yutang, possibly the best
\nChinese essayist, who died in Taiwan in 1976 and who was very
\ncritical of the CCP, if not anti-communist, wrote of this in his
\nbook My country and my people, saying that the Long March was a
\nsuperhuman effort.<\/p>\n
Indeed it was.<\/p>\n
SIA KA-MOU, Jakarta<\/p>", "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/more-on-long-march-1447893297", "image": "" }, "sponsor": "Okusi Associates", "sponsor_url": "https:\/\/okusiassociates.com" }