MOVE ON PEIPING

Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 103, 29 October 1945, Page 7

MOVE ON PEIPING

COMMUNISTS IN THE WAY?

CHUNGKING, Octob.er 28.

A Communist communique claims that Communists captured Linmingwang, a railway town near Tzehsein, south of Hopei, after killing and wounding the greater part of 5000 puppet troops. A correspondent says the claim would mean that the Communists have interposed themselves directly in the path of Government troops moving towards Peiping. The communique adds that fighting continues with Goyernment forces allegedly obstructing movement northwards by Communist troops from eastern Chekiang. The Communists, in offensives to force the Japanese and puppets to lay down their arms, captured several stations along the Tien-tsin-Pukow railway. The Communists lost Anyang, a railway town in north Honan, also Tzehsein, which is an important coal-mining centre. The Communists claimed that two Japanese brigades armed by the Cen-

tral Government were now fighting v.?:th Government troops attacking Communists on a 60-mile front from Hsuchow at the junction of the Tien-tsin-Pukfcw and Lunghai railways to a point near Kiashan north-westward of -Nanking.

General Yen Hsi Shan, formerly on» of China's, most famous1 warlords and at present Governor of Shansi Province, reported during a visit to Chungking that .55 of 105 districts in Shansi were under Communist control.