KAIFENG BATTLE
THREAT BY REDS GENERAL OFFENSIVE N CHINA AND MANCHURIA* (11.15 a.m.) NANKING, Dec. 16. Fierce fighting continues for a vital causeway between North China and Manchuria in the Liaoling Province. It is reported that the Communists have cut a corridor between Jehol Province and Liaoling, near Chinchow, and that bitter fighting has now entered the fourth day.
Meanwhile from Hsuchow dispatches state that the Communists are still fighting on the outskirts of Lanfang, 20 miles east of Kaifeng. Heavy battles are in progress. The situation for the Government’s forces is reported to be serious.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22513, 17 December 1947, Page 7
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