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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 271, 16 November 1945, Page 5

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COMMUNIST AT i ACKS BATTLE RAGES IN INNER MONGOLIA

Recd. 6 p.m. Chungking, Nov. 14 An official Chinese dispatch reports that crack Communist troops were thrown back in savage lighting as ■ hey hurled heavy attacks at two major nationalist strongholds in Inner Mongolia.

Battle; are still raging about the railway terminal at Paotow and the long-besigcd Kweisui. eight miles io the east, where the Communists have thrown in 10,000 reinforcements. The attackers at Kweisui inflicted considerable civilian casualties. A Foreign Ocffie spokesman made the firs, official Chungking admission that China is having difficulty in negotiating with Russia for the entry of Chinese troops into Manchuria. He said that, nego.iations were proceeding, but that so far all difficulties had not been overcome. A Cabinet spokesman in Chungking stated that Chinese Communists had destroyed one-tenth of all Chinats railways, or 875 miles of track, causing widespread dislocation of the transportation network. ‘ Neutral sources in Chungking report that Central Government, troops captured the strategic railway town of Snanhaikwan from Communi; ts. Tsingtao reports that American transports began disembarking thousands of Chinese Nationalist troops in the first landing in Shantung Province, which is dominated by the Cornmuni. ts.