CHINESE COMMUNISTS
NEW YORK, February 16
Chinese secret police smashed a “ Communist plot ” to take over Peiping when tlie American forces evacuated the city in the spring, according to -a Government source, says the United Press Peiping correspondent. According to the report, the police broke up “ fifth column ” headquarters and arrested 300 suspected of being Communist guerrillas who had slipped into the city to organise an underground group which they intended to rise immediately the Americans departed.
Plot to Seize Peiping
Nationalist troops captured Linyi. which is the Communist capital of Shantung Province, thus achieving the primary objective of the offensive which began on January 27. The Nationalists continue to advance, with the Communists retreating, to the north-west. The Government will now try to restore the Tientsin-Pukow railway north of Suchow. The Communist forces operating west of the railway are reported to have suffered 9,000 casualties in the Nationalist campaign which led to the of Chengwu, 93 miles northwest of Suchow.
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Evening Star, Issue 26028, 17 February 1947, Page 7
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