COMMUNIST FORCES IN CHINA
PEACE TALKS CANCELLED CHARGE THAT IDS. IS HELPING CHINESE GOVERNMENT Recd. 8 p.m. Chungking, Nov. 10. Communists have abruptly cancelled the peace talks scheduled for this afternoon, and declared that they would oppose the entry of Generalissimo Kai-shek’s troops into Manchuria and any other liberated areas. They charged the Government with using 49 armies, aggregating 127 divisions, composed of nearly a million men, plus 350,000 puppet troops. They added that the Government divisions are supplied, wholly or partly, with American equipment.
Semi-official sources said the Government probably would make its major drive into Manchuria by moving eastward from the Chin-Wan-Tao area, along the Peiping-Mukden railway, They hoped to reach Manchuria this month to replace the Russian occupation forces. A Cmmunist spokesman said that an American ultimatum had been served on the commander of the Red troops iat Shankai-Hann, the coastal terminus of the Great Wall, to withdraw their forces 100 kilometres from either side of the Peiping-Mukden railway. The commander rejected the ultimatum.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 267, 12 November 1945, Page 5
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