DIVIDED CHINA

Evening Star, Issue 25565, 18 August 1945, Page 7

DIVIDED CHINA

ATTEMPT TO SETTLE DIFFERENCES GENERAL HURLEY TO SEE COMMUNIST LEADER . CHUNGKING, August 17. A Chungking message states that it is authoritatively reported that the American Ambassador, General P. J. Hurley, is prepared to fly to Yenan in an attempt to induce the Communist leader, Mao Tze Tung, to settle the differences between the Communists and the Chungking Government, says the Associated Press correspondent. Simultaneously, the, American air forces have announced that they would undertake the large-scale deployment of Chinese troops to facilitate the disarming and interning of the Japanese. • The Japanese commander, Lieuten-ant-general Okamura, is reported to have told Marshal Chiang Kai-shek that the bulk of the Japanese have already withdrawn from Nanking, but a small Japanese force has been left to maintain order pending the arrival of Chungking troops. Major-general A. C. ■ Wedemeyer, commander of the United States forces in China, announced that lend-lease deliveries to China would cease when peace was formally proclaimed. Yenan radio broadcast an appeal by General Chu-teh, the Communist general, . who called on the United States to halt lend-lease to Marshal Chiang Kai-shek in order to lessen the danger of civil war. General Chu-teh _ also sent a memorandum to the British, American, and Russian Ambassadors at Chungking, demanding representation in the Allied .acceptance of Japan's surrender. It is unofficially but reliably reported that Communist forces are persisting in military operations north of the. Yellow River, with the object of establishing control over Tsing-tao, Tientsin, and other vital points. Communists have infiltrated into Shanghai and are nearing Peking.