ALL QUIET IN SHANGHAI

Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 52, 30 August 1945, Page 7

ALL QUIET IN SHANGHAI

DISTURBANCES AT NINGPO

Rec. 11.20 a.m. LONDON, August 29. Government representatives from Chungking have already taken over the control of the Customs, the Post Office, the Central Press service (the defunct Nanking Puppet Government's propaganda organ), and various trade and labour union headquarters, says Reuters Shanghai correspondent. The Chinese troops "who marched in last Saturday belong to a body known as the National Salvation Army. They are not members of the occupation forces, which are due shortly, but form a vanguard to assist in maintaining order during the transitional stage. All is quiet in Shanghai, but disturbances are reported m the port of Ningpo, south of Shanghai, following infiltration by Chinese Communist troops. Communications between Shanghai and Ningpo are interrupted. A communique from the Communist headquarters says that its troops have entered Shumchun, 30 miles north of Hong Kong, and are at present engaged in battle with Japanese and puppet troops. Fighting is also occurring near Nanking and on the Shantung Peninsula.

Rec. noon. CHUNGKING, Aug. 29. Coinciding with the arrival of the Communist leader Mao Tse-tung, the Communist newspaper the "China Daily News" began referring to "President Chiang" instead of the "Fascist reactionary dictator."