CHINESE PREMIER: GENERAL HO ACCEPTS NOMINATION
NANKING, March 10
General Ho Ying-chin has accepted nomination as Prime Minister of China in succession to Dr Sun Fo. The task of his Cabinet will be to expedite the search for peace and implement the sweeping social reforms promulgated by the ActingPresident (General Li Tsung-jen). A military spokesman in Nanking announced today that the Nationalists had voluntarily evacuated to the south bank of the Wei river, in Shensi, and were continuing to hold ground on the Yangtse line in an endeavour to secure peace.
He added, however, that the Government would not yield to a Communist attempt to cross the Yangtse. The spokesman said that on Febluary 26, 16 Communist columns, each comprising about 25,000 men, had begun a gradual movement southwards under the command of General Chen Yi.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 12 March 1949, Page 5
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