MARSHAL CHIANG

Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25732, 18 February 1949, Page 7

MARSHAL CHIANG

belief in Return AS LEADER REPORTED STATEMENT BY SON ( Rec. 7 p.m.) NANKING, Feb. 16. The conviction that Marsha! Chiang Kai-shek would emerge from retirement to lead the Nationalist armies in South China after the fall of Nanking and Shanghai was expressed by Colonel Chiang Weikiuo, the second son of Marshal Chiang, who is quoted in a dispatch from Formosa. Colonel Chiang said that General Li Tsung-jen’s peace efforts were hopeless, and that the war would certainly continue. He predicted that the would use fifth column tactics and separate negotiations rather than a frontal attack to capture Nanking and Shanghai. A message from Peiping says that the first meeting between the Communists and the Shanghai civic peace delegation took place to-day, when the Communist Mayor (General Yeh Chien-ying) called on the delegation leader (Mr .Wei Yen). No details of what was discussed were disclosed.’ Prague Trial Postponed.— it is officially announced that the trial of General Karel Kutlvasr on charges of plotting to overthrow the Republic has been postponed indefinitely. It should have begun tq-day. General Kutlvasr led the uprising against the German occupation of Prague.—Prague, February 16.