BATTLE NEAR KAIFENG
BIG FORCES MASSED ON PLAIN
(Rec. 9 P.m.) SHANGHAI, July 2. Two hundred thousand Chinese Nationalist and Cojnmunist troops are locked in battle "on the Honan plain, south-east of Kaifeng. The Communists are employing nine armies, with further forces, massed et some distance west and east of the fighting zone, awaiting further orders. Lieutenant-General Teng Wen-yi, a Government military spokesman, said the battle was taking the form of positional warfare on a scale hitherto unprecedented in China’s civil war. Dispatches say that no clear picture of the actual fighting is obtainable so far. The battle developed as the result of a Government offensive designed to clear the Communists from the south of the Yangtse river.
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Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25537, 3 July 1948, Page 7
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