COMMUNIST ONSLAUGHT GAINS SPEED
30,000 Troops Besiege Kashing ADVANCED COLUMNS THRUST TOWARDS NANCHANG (N.Z. Press Association —Copyright) (Rec. 9 p.m.) HONG KONG, May 5. Communist offensives to eliminate the last Nationalist strongholds in a vast strip of China south of the Yangtse river gained new momentum to-day. Kashing, a strategic railway junction, 60 miles south-west of Shanghai, and about <5O miles north-east of Hangchow, is under attack by 30,000 Communist troops. The city’s fate lay in the balance to-day. Communist spearheads were reported to-day to be within 50 miles of Nanchang, the capital of Kiangsi Province. According to the New China News Agency, the Communists have captured Loping, north-east of Nanchang and south-east of Lake Poyang. Three Nationalist divisions have taken up positions around'Nanchang. Government officials in the city are preparing for an early evacuation. Other Communist columns were said to-day to be pressing south in East Kiangsi, to meet Nationalist forces whieh have fallen back on the Government’s new Tsientang river defence line.
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25796, 6 May 1949, Page 7
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