THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1948; «
NEXT FEW DAYS MAY HOLD Loyalty Of Chiang's
SEEDS OF FATE OF Blackest Situation Since The Japanese Invasion
Nanking, November 2.
Can Nationalist China survive what is happening to it? Have the recent economic and military thunderbolts shaken Gèneral- issimo Chiang Kai-shek's government beyond recovery? More observers, as each day passes, feel that the answer to these questions
can be no more positive than "perhaps."
such a
CHINA Troops Is Doubtful
Shanghai, November 3. Remnants Of. For the second time since he came to power Chiang Chiang Armies Withdrawing
Shanghai. Nevember, 3.
The remnants of the one- time kalf a million strong Na tionalist Army in Manchuria have begun the evacuation of the Yingkow and Hulutao bridgeheade, virtually the last Government-held Areas
the North East, according to Chinese today from North Сміла,
The
corridor between Müköön and Yingkow is sald to be alrondy cut with strong Red forces closing in..on the South Manchuria sesport. The reporte gave no estimate of the number. of troops which are withdrawing .. by, trans. parts to North China-Rou.
Events in the past few weeks have moved with incrediblo rapidity, even for those carefully following them since V-Day. And the next few weeks --or even days—may hold the seeds of China's immediate fate.
jira. The country has not faced and China Prosper where Nution-↑ Taiyuan, capital of Shankl
nication sinco the alist General Tu Yu-ming was cut vince (the Reds occupy the rest six the province) is Marshal Yen blackest days of the Japanesi: down with the bulk of the
one-time warlord. invasion and there was always divisions evacuated from Muklen. Hal-shan,
American-whose connection-with the Nan- the conviction of a worldwide These include the
overnment
seldom trained New First and New Sinth king Allied victory then to sustain Armies, together with hundreds affected his independent attitude: MANCHURIA MAIL it. Today, no comparable out of thousands of dollars worth of The Red 'victories have given side furtors are at work, and American equipment, This "Sunthem virtually all of Manchuria,
Chinese Communists, un-kirk"
one-fourth of the
operation was decisive as and about like the Japanese, are fighting far as fitting Government military Proper in area. Most were won are wide the aid of highly effective only on the front and putting operation in No.th China
have whicheners net!. everything they
considerable-into
fight.
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Nationalist General
of the yl, in command China coridor (frem
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Be at lens 158,000 men massed in runs aurales, woering: down the road to famer Mongolia
UNIQUE DIVORCE
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fth-column tnetles.
China
SUSPENDED
Kai-shek has lost Manchuria, and the doubtful loyalty of some of his troops has been revealed. Although he has avowed his intention to fight to the end, most observers doubt that he can survive this second loss of territory wrested from Japan a scant three and a half years ago, Chiah's brand new revolu- They stopped there, due to Red tianary government, which came resistance and the detion of the to power in 1927 and almost-Marshal mission. The Reds took immediately plunged into war the offensive in Manchuria and
Shantung provinces. Jost with the Chinese Reds, Manchuria to the Japs in campaign set off by the 1831 | Mukden Incident.
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This time the fall of Mukden came at the virtual end of the Manchurian conquest by the Chi- nese Reds.
Crittes of Chiang's war effort Bald that the Nationalists over- extended themselves in Mon- churlo. The Reds,.once they got hold of Japanese military stock- piles which the Russians gave them,
began, pushing Chiong's armies out. Soon they bad Chlang regained much of South squeezed Chang's forces into the Manchuria on the withdrawal of Chungchun-Mukden corridor and the Russians after a lightning So-eventually isolated the area. vlet offensive at the close of But while Chlong has lost Man-
At
World War II. The Soviets churia he has not necessarily lost withdrew from Manchuria in the the war. He never did holà, spring of 1048 after stripping the much of Manchuria. The loss of country of ik heavy industries. troops and applies is the Im-
the sam
The defection of time Chlang's portant thing. flooded Into Manchurinko many of his sokliers raises the question whether any of Chiang's from the sea at several parts by
along the coast and by Am-troom can be depended on.---AS- crlein airlift.
sorted Press.
troop
Washington, November. 2. The United States Post Onice Department today suspended viral United States mall service to Generals and whole division, Manchuria becouse of the unsel- desertett or Aurrenlered with led conditions there.
The authorities in Shanghai Nerth hardly fight. Key subordinates
lefected as crucial Junctures. Na. had advised them they were now Sufyaan Province to the Gulf of Pechil,onalist chorale was hienvily shake unable to clear mail from Am- truuble zone.-- the ancient capital, by subtle propaganda, playing on Pelping, and the modern part the universal ache for an end to of Tientsin, has been placed in the bitter, sulcilat civil war. an untenable position.
including
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This question of morale hus a tremendous signi- He may be forced to abandon tuken these ties and rethe into Inuryience in past weeks. Well-in- formed neutral miltury, attaches Taupe-serie + Mangoist, Bahting
are convinced that the Nationa (rearguata netion.
whole, me Hiller "One-eyed Dragon" Communi dats, on the Generat Lu Po-chen, with rough-numbered
Hot nut-quippert
ly 150,00 men is having his own by the Reds. Many give them the way much of the time in Western material and physical advantage. Honan, Northern Hupeh, and the Kemlcircular are 100 miles North
of the Yangtze River port of fan- This is belog defended un-
GRANTEDder, the overall command of Na-
Shefield, November 3.
WIS
Fricu into the Reuter,
Only 2
The Big Question
At the high tide of the Na- tionalist return, Chiang's sol. dlers renched the Southern banks of the Sungari
River,
midway between Changchun
and Harbin,
Generals
Escaped The Bag
Peiping, November 5.
But the will to fight has sub- The Red prisoner-of-war bag in Manchuria is rich
sided practically to zero.
Other nationelle fuelors, such
as the economic deterioration, fun Lerncl homelly rati the military timals General Pai Chung-hṣi, fortner Minister of Defence, angston, shaking mornic regarded is the country's 1011 strategist.
aarhured
jature.
Initiative Lost
populo Government
motiation
with Nationalist genèråle but at least two top Government commanders are safe.
They are Wei Li-huang and Tu Yu-ming.
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CHINA TO GET 200 PLANES
Glendale, November 3. Two hundred surplus train- ing planes are being record-
for tioned here the Chinese
Government.
This was announced by the Grand Central Airport Company. The planes were purchased Creation
the
Canadian War, Kuets
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BRONEN,
a plane sales Then the Chinese Embassy in Washington arranged for repus- chase and reconditioning.
Approximately 150 will be ship-
as compleur planes..
The rest will be dismantled 'for use as parts by the Chinese
Force. Air The
plunes were known
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Both are reliably reported to With the loss of Mukden, in- fed A Yorkshire WOLFELD who
in Taiyuan, be in Hulutao; which is now terast
capital of received love letters written by Dynamic Red General Chen Yi,
headquarters Nationalist
under for Shansi,
siege almost u her lausband Thother wht with more than 200,000 mess. [4] The entire fighting force of the Manchuria. Hulutno is a good
month, sharpened. Yen granted a decree of nullity here solely
shan, Governor of the province, is primarily today on the grounds that she Shantung Province, and, working concentrated defence. The N-pot because in an emergency appears to be puuing up a deler-AT-6 during World War II. In mined fight, but unless he - Cannia they were called Har- co-ordination with Lit Honalists have totally bust the ini-escape is possible by sea, married her husband when, in close unknown to her, Ja
a Po-chen to his West, is seriously tutive they hold for a year after
ceives effective air support the vards. Wel, in a vadio from Hulutuo,n
of Talyuan becoming Now they are designated T-6: prospect mental, defective.
nenbeing the Northern banks of the Marshall
mission asked Chiang Kai-shek to punish another Mukden remainsAsan- by the American Ale Force,-AS- of the Yangt failed.
him for the Manchurian disaster. elater! Press. I was stated to be the first case the upper stretch
ociated Press. diefeat has This is the traditional, gesture by of its kind to come before any his massive concentrations due
North of Hspehow, pivataf de- nccelerated proportionately with any high Chinese official who has English divorce court.
the fence stronghold guiding the the tendency to withdraw to cities disgraced himself. There is lit- and approaches to Banking and and fortified points and leave the chance that Wel actually will
the Reds room over the country. Le punished. Shanghai.
Communists, un Che other hand, have carefully select-
Flits
divorce judge mid couple married nine months after they met. During that time the woman received love letters pu – porting to have been written by the man, but it turned out after the murringe that the man could att write at all,
A postcard received from the man's mother after the marriage
aburulently clear andle it
111 the love letters,werg written by her, the Jurige addeck-Reuter.
The
site.
The
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The extent of the Manchurian
He may by pass this import ant baze, and attempt to sheared pitched battles whenever pos- disaster stunned Government up- through the deep defence lines sible, scattering when they are porters in North China. Indica- now being constructed
along
outnumbered, to
after tions are that not p single soldier regroup the threat is removed. Thus their escaped the Mukden arts to Ying- tosses have been relatively slight.
tebi, kew, the Dunkirk that never was.
the East-West-running Lungha Railway and parallel to it. The Government commander In this area is General Liu Shih,
Another factor which might have helped the Government was correct use of the airforce which,
The Fifth Column though small, is virtually unchal Along the coastal strin connect-lenged. However, in the opinion
More Sweets in China with Manchuria, com- of American military observers.
For Britain
and
Landon, November 2. British housewives children had good news from the Food Minister, Mr. John Strachey, tonight,
ile announced the Commons increnses ht the cations of sweets sugar and fals, and 'the ending of rationing, for all kinds of Jam and armalade.
The ratioulug of cheaper sweets-under 2/- or 2/4d per Ib-is to ent in, the New Year, Meanwhile, the rution has been increased from 12 ozs. to pend a month. Rationing of the niore expensive sweets, which use scarce ingredients such fats and cocoa powder, will be continued.
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The sugar ration is inøren sed from eight ounces to ten a week, and there is to be a temporary increase in the cooking fut ration from one to two ounces a week for 16 weeks.Rcuter.
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