“LOSING CIVIL WAR”

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25328, 30 October 1947, Page 7

“LOSING CIVIL WAR”

POSITION OF CHINESE GOVERNMENT (Rec. 10 pm.) NEW YORK, Oct. 28. “As far as the loss of men and material is concerned, foreign military observers consider that the Chinese Government is losing the civil war.’’ says the Nanking correspondent of the “New York Times.” i “Such qualitative superiority as the I Nationalist Army enjoyed over the I Communists is fast being whittled ! away by the depletion of ammunition for American lend-lease weapons, the loss of many of these weapons in battle, and casualties among seasoned troops. “Although the exact casualty figures are difficult to obtain, it is generally agreed that the Nationalists, through their inability to . cope with the Red guerrilla strategy, have suffered far more heavily than the Communists. The Nationalists have succeeded in taking towns and cities whenever the>’ have been in a position to muster sufficient troop strength, but without crushing the Communist armies or preventing them from roaming freely 'through too countryside.”