COMMUNIST ATTACKS

Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 118, 15 November 1945, Page 7

COMMUNIST ATTACKS

SAVAGE FIGHTING IN INNER MONGOLIA

(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.) Rec. 12.30 p.m. CHUNGKING, Nov. 14. An official Chinese dispatch reports that crack Communist troops were thrown back in savage fighting as they hurled heavy attacks at two major nationalist strongholds in Inner Mongolia.

Battles are still raging about the railway terminal at Paotow and the long-besieged- Kweisui, eight miles to the east, where the Communists have thrown in 10,000 reinforcements. The attackers at Kweisui inflicted considerable civilian casualties.

A Foreign Office spokesman made the first official Chungking admission that China is having difficulty in negotiating with Russia for the entry of Chinese troops into Manchuria. He said that negotiations were proceeding, but that so far all difficulties had not been overcome.

A Cabinet spokesman in Chungking stated that Chinese Communists had destroyed one-tenth of all China's railways, or 875 miles of track,' causing widespread dislocation of the transportation network.

Neutral sources in Chungking report that.* Central Government troops captured the strategic railway town of Shanhaikwan from Communists.

Tsingtao reports that American transports began disembarking thousands of Chinese nationalist troops in the first landing in Shantung Province, which is dominated by the Communists.