Liberation Armies Drive to the South
Telepress Special Correspondent
HONG KONG, Monday. - YOMPLETELY outwitting the Kuomintang command in the great battle of the Central China plains, the Communist-led Liber- ation Armies have already crossed the Yangtse river in force.
They are now operating 350 miles south of it in South Hunan.
This spells the complete col- lapse of Chiang Kai-shek's “last ditch" plan to hold the Yangtse line at all costs, while with American assistance he raised and equipped fresh troops in South China.
The Yangtse crossings were made possible through the initia- tive gained by the Liberation Armies during the weeks-long war of manoeuvre in the central plains.
Nanking's National Defence Minister has admitted that 6,000 men of the Liberation Army have already crossed the river, and are fighting in the provinces on the south bank.
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