COMMUNISTS CLAIM SUCCESSES IN MANCHURIAN WAR

Greymouth Evening Star, 12 July 1947, Page 5

COMMUNISTS CLAIM SUCCESSES IN MANCHURIAN WAR

NANKING, July IE A Chinese Communist broadcast claimed that more than half the Manchurian area and population and wo thirds of the railways formerly in Chinese Nationalist hands had been retaken during a 50 days Communist summer offensive in east, west, and south Manchuria, Jehol, and east broadcast claimed that 82,000 Kuomintang troops had been killed 01 The United Press correspondent in Peking reports that the Government Chief of Staff, General Chen Cheng, has arrived there on his way to muk den. Ten thousand Communists were reported to be massed at Tsimo, giymg rise to fears that an attack on Tsmgtio was imminent, but informed sources doubted whether the Com munists would attack the city, w American marines were supporting the United States naval centre which is training Chinese naval forces. Dispatches from Tsinan today indicated that the Government had lost the strategic centre of Taian_on he Tientsin-Pukow railway for the thud time this year as the Communists renewed their offensive m Shuntung P 1 from Suchow asserted that Government forces had reached Hsiachuken, a city of Shantung;<described as headquarters of the Communist field forces in East China.