COMMUNISTS CLOSING IN NEAR SHANGHAI
Rail Centre 60 Miles To South Hangs In Balance HONGKONG, May 5 (Recd. 6 pm). —The fate of Kashin;?, a strategicrailway junction 60 miles south-west of Shanghai, under attack by 30,000 Cortianumsts, lay in the balance today as the latest Red drives to lop oil Nationalist-held ends of a vast strip of China captured south of the Yangtze gathered new momentum. Red spearheads were reported today to be within 50 miles of Nanchang. The New China News Agency reported the capture of Loping, northeast of Nanchang and south-east of Lake Poyang. Other Communist columns were said to be pressing south in East Kiangsi to meet Nationalists who had fallen back on the Chientang River line.—Rente! SHANGHAI, May 6 (Recd. 12.11 am).—Chinese Communists signed a mutual aid pact with North Korean Reds and pledged joint aid to Burmese Communists, says the central news agency.
The latter pledge included aid in the "joint struggle against British and American imperialism.” Tho agency said the Korean Pact was signed in Moscow on March 17 and the other in Burma on February 17.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 6 May 1949, Page 5
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