HEAVY FIGHTING

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 267, 12 November 1945, Page 5

HEAVY FIGHTING

COMMUNISTS AND NATIONAL CHINESE TROOPS Recd. 9 p.m. New York, Nov. 10 Heavy fighting between Communist and Nationalist forces has broken out along the Great Wall of China, northward of Chin Wang Tao. bringing artillery and heavy mortars into action in the Chinese civil war for the first time, says the Associated Press correspondent. New clashes are reported along the Chin Wang Tao-Peiping railway, southward of Chin Wang Tao. The presence of American marines guarding the railway bridge prevented the Communists attacking the Nationalists. Controlled armed Japanese are holding Shislung. «a vililage southward of Chin Wang Tao. The Communists halted their attack when marines refused to pull back out of the danger. Three morfe American transports, carrying well-equipped troops of the Chinese Bth Army, left Kowloon for Tsingtao.

American sailors returning from Haipong, Indo China, said two Chinese armies have been moved therefrom in a scora of American ships. It is understood one army has proceeded to Norih China and the other to Formosa.

General Wedemeyer, at Chungking, declared that the United Slates would not help China move troops into Manchuria, but the Central Government already had obtained 20 American transport planes. General Wedemeyer emphasised that the United States could continue to assist in the repatriation of Japanese from the Chinese theatre, but American forces would remain non-partisan. He expressed regret about the involvement of American troops in clashes, but asserted that the Americans had not taken the hi'tim’.vc.