by road maps and instructions being smuggled to them by agents of the Japanese, with very specific advice on where to obtain free vehicle rides, or how to find smugglers’ boats to make the tricky journey downriver from Yichang to Wuhan. “If we do not root this out,” noted one concerned government report, “this will have a grave effect on the War of Resistance.” In response, the Nationalists put more resources into propaganda as well as relief efforts, trying to prevent the newcomers from being “deceived by the enemy.”
