content of training

Being conversant in Chinese, Captain Ronald Holmes read the newspaper published by the column's headquarters, Qianjin Bao《前進報》, and sat in on their daily lecture or indoctrination (灌輸). To his surprise, he found very little evidence of Communist propaganda. The troops were given a lecture every afternoon, always by a practised speaker, who was obviously the political commissar. But the contents of the talks were mostly lessons on guerrilla tactics, sometimes of an exhortation (告誡) in general terms. He had never heard anything in the nature of political propaganda. Nor did he find anything of this nature in Qianjin Bao.

Chan, S.J. (2014). East River Column -- Hong Kong Guerrillas in the Second World War and After. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press.