RELIEF OF YENAN

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22200, 10 December 1946, Page 5

RELIEF OF YENAN

DRIVE BY COMMUNISTS

NANKING. Dec. 8.

The Communists have loosed hardhitting attacks on three fronts in West Shansi with the object of lifting the pressure of the Nationalist armies hemming in the Communist capital of Yenan. . . / , Heavy fighting is occurring at Taning, 70 miles east of Yenan, at Chungyang, 110 miles north-east of Yenan, and at Yungho, 100 miles south-east are reported to have comoletcd plans for a winter campaign. “Because of the present policy of the United States, which provides assistance for Marshal Chiang Kai-shek to fight a civil war,” the Chinese Communist Parly has refused to permit the United States Consul-General, Mr. Edmund Clubb, to proceed to his post ill Communist-held Harbin, says the New York Times’ correspondent in H Mr U Clubb is now at Changchun, and hac been waiting for more than eight months for permission to enter Communist territory.