They rushed a brigade of puppet troops to reinforce the area.

This seems incredible, but the Communists lay their ability to exist like this on their work among the people and the puppet troops of the Japanese.

A peasant in Honan tells how a puppet commander, a landlord's bailiff, threw him in jail and would not let him out until he had given him his daughter.

Children, pregnant women and wounded men would he sent into the towns and put under the care of puppet families, doctors and nurses.

In the town of Hochien there lived a former commander of a Japanese puppet battalion, named Chun, and several of his officers.