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CHINA'S IMMEDIATE FUTURE DEPENDS ON CHIANG'S DECISIONS
By Milos W. Vaughn
Shanghai, December 18.
Generalissima Chiang Kai-shok is the key to the im- mediate political and military situation in China and the course of events in the imme. diate wooks to come depends upon the decisions which he is now weighing.
That is the general opinion among the best inform- ed Chinese foreign experts to whom this cor- respondent talked during the past fortnight.
TIENTSIN RACE COURSE NOW
AN AIRFIELD
arc
Tientsin, December 19. With Tientsin's malt airport in danger, the authorities redoubling efforts to construct in emergency airfield at the It was agreed that the Pre- He played a leading
course, where sident is the central figure in the Nationalist Revolution be-Tientsin
theginning with the famous North-The sport of kings has long the present crisia-with
march from Canton In been forgotten and where tents Communist armies battering at ward the gates of the Generalissimo's 1995-1826 and ably assisted the have been put up to house con-
part in
race
capital in Manking and at the Generalissimo in maintaining re-scripts,
jalatonre against the Japanese } During the purt Jew days,
png.
walls of the ancient seat of the militarists after they had cup heaps of earth have been earted) Imperial Chinese rulers in Pei-tured East China and much of to the rare course where the dirt the Central oven, Including Han-track and the adjoining enters The Generalissimo in believedkow in 1937-1938.
track have been Joined into one. these possible be debating courses of action:
Est
Chinese informants are divid.
been
The entire stretch ha d as to which log of netlon the extended Southward into the the (1) To retire from the Chi-Generalissimo should take.
bordering countryside and completed
expected nese seega oni go nduwurd
Should
thr
Gener
he to this, it is presumer that
Vice President
Re- of the
Tsung- public.
A More Puppet
The conservative groups gen-
all of
runway
Chi-
to be 4,000 feet long.
At the Northern end, rally believe that if he does m-
nese village slightly to the righ' would become Claef Executive unce his decision to retire, re-
been demolished and the vesistance to the Communists is has and form a coalition
house in the vicinity. which might attempt to consolety to disintegrate, pertailtingame fate might befall a foreign The question observers are arking is what will happen te the American Consul General's .house which lies directly in the path of the runway, abou 300 yards from the probable
clate opposition munist and continue
the
the evit
to
form
|the Reds to take over Com- China quickly They are almost
NJER unanimously of the opinion that General T. Tsung-Jen
and any Government he might be able could not boir 11 gainst the Communists for long. They assert that if General Li should be able to persunde the Communista to enter Into condition, he would find himself mere puppet in very shortly, a Communist hands, fored to 1242 the bidding of the Reds or gel joul.
of this country.
the Geruralissim
war we he might try to make dent with the Reds for some kind of "coalition in which the Com
would mubists
be given only! lit with
Nationalist Kuomintang Party and amate elements.
The highest American matic laser VOTR believer that will he forced to step down and
the Secretary
State. General Geog Marshall would be pleased to hear of such a des
ered tha velopment it to
that Mr. Moshalt has held Chlang in very low estrem since the failure of the Marshall Mission to China. (2) То remain in Nanking as long as posthit and fight against Communism to the bli ter end. If Nanking is lost, it)
Bimc
would nove
spot where the planes take to the air?
The Consul-General and Mrs. Robert L. Smyth have a beauti-
ful residesen which is flanked by two other similar buklings. sular staIT, necupied by the American con-
Pranard
Chinese Tientsin A majority of the informed many weddings into a few our- American and other foreign rewless hours
yesterday, Reu- diplomate with whom this cor- ter. respondent had long private conversations, assert that the Generalissime has got to reties if he expecta to get any more appreciable aid from the Unit ed Staten.
They belleve that the St-
SEKI, THE SILK CONSULTANT
Tokyo, December 19. is believed that the Generaliseretary of State, Mr. George Allied Headquarters joday dis- Held Marshall and President Truman natched Guro Seki, Japanese silk headquarters slowly South-
hart made
clear it amply
to techlejany,
plane to New York to serve is consultant to 10 | SCAPS foreign trade offre there and maintain Halson between
WH
ward until has eventually Made Chihg Kai-shek dur-
Canton where his
reached
brother-in-law,
Mr.
T
her
conversations Windington this month that hea
Sanng, has been attempting husband is ant going to get any Japan's domestic silk producers organier ፡፡ strong anti-Com
more effective American uit. and American silk buyers. munist base for the past year.
A high American informant He will repince two Japanese
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Communists will not renew their all-out drive towards Nanking while these negotiations underway. He thought that the |negotiations have a chance for siwess since the Nanking regime fin as almost hopeless position.) -Unital Tress.
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Cincinnail, December 19. An American Judge who has heard the domestic trou- blox of 24,000 couple sug gests handling wayward married couples
delin- quent children,
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Pongpu, December 18. Chinoso children chanted versas in Pangpu's Sacred Heart Church today while Nationalist soldiers in the sandbagged stoople watched for Com- munist advance units approaching from the North,
From the Church steeple in this bewildered elty from which with- government troops are drawing, could be seen a plume; of smoke rising from a burning wooden bridge over a tributary of the Hual.
After the singing, 110′ Chinese Inside the Church asked to be baptised. A nun performed the rites.
Tanks Move On
Outside, Pengpu reverberated with screeching whistles of trains grunting South Eastward toward Pukow. That is the rall terminal Just Across the Yangise from Nanking.
The cars were crammed with soldiers and guns. refugees crowded the tops of the cars, huddled together with their bundled household goods,
armies apparently have taken a major beating. The tanks con- tinued Southward without boing unloaded.
There was every indication of a general retreat from the Hwal River defence line, of which Pengpu was the anchor.
The movement to the South was anything but easy.
fted raiders swooped down on the mil line on Friday night and broke the line in four pinces.
Telegraph communications were disrupted. These breaks are almost daily occurrences now. Nobody in Pengpu la aur. prised by them.
to
About one third of the city's 300,000 residents are leaving. Coal stili comes from the Ruinan mines to keep its water system Communist Hundreds of operating.
units the West are expected to cut that line of supply almost anytime.
Amil all the noise of move- A company of light tanks arment, Penggu's people seem sur rived
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