U.S. SENATOR SAYS COMMUNIST CHINESE TROOPS FOR KOREA
WASHINGTON, Aug. 19 (Recd. 6 p.m.)—Senator Alexander Wiley, Republican, Wisconsin, said toddy that Congress members had been told that a crack 200,000-strong Communist army is moving northwards in China towards the Korean border. Senator Wiley, who is a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said he could not divulge the source of his information. “We know there is a strong force of crack troops, said to be largely made up of Koreans trained in Manchuria by the Russians, that is moving northward through China,” he ' said. “We do not know yet what their | destination is."
A military spokesman said the Defence Department knew nothing of the report mentioned by Mr. Wiley. He suggested that Mr. Wiley’s information might have come from Nationalist sources on Formosa.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 21 August 1950, Page 5
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