MOSLEMS MASSING TO FIGHT CHINESE REDS
Rcceivod Thursdav, 11 p.m. HYDXFV. June 16. A lartre army of Aroslems was massing in Xorlliw'est ('hina to oppose tlie Commnni.sts. said Mr. B. W Johnston, a member of the ("hina Inland ATission who, with his wife, arrived at Hvdney today by air from Ilong Kong. They are rotomanu to their home in Auckland until the end of the civil war in ('hina. 1 The Johnston? have spent two years in. a reinote outpost in Xorfhwest Clfina betwen onter Tibet and Alonuolia. "Xorthwest ('hina was still free from Coinmuiiists when we were evacuntoil by plane," said ATr. Johnston. " Tens of thousands of Afoslems were being t'ormed into an arinv bv General Ma Pu Fang. These Mosiems speak f'hinese but are meither Chinese nor Tibetan. Thev have a fanatic hatred for ths Communists on religious grounds. Thev are exnert guerriiia lighters and should p'-ovide stiff oppo--ition to the Gommunist thrust in Xorthwest China."
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Chronicle (Levin), 17 June 1949, Page 5
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