UNRRA SUPPLIES BLOCKADE.
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ASSERTION BY T^E CHINESE COMMUNISTS
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Received Thursday, 11.45 a.m. PEK1NG, July 10. A Cpmmunist sppkesmp,n as-i serted tq-day th^t the Central Government military authorities had blockaded UNRRA suppiies tp North Chipu and Manchppa for pQlitical and military reasahs. Xhe sppkes[in9«n decl^red thg.t less than three per cent. of the 167,152 tons of UNRRA supplies transpoi'ted into the .ton portherpt prqviUP?§ tP the middie of June had been distributed in the Copimupisi-dqminated areas. He atldod that the Government military autkonttes had imposejl a tig^t blockade on the Communist aieas, thereby usipg UNRRA as the pressure fqr cqncessions. iVleanwhije, thqusands#of Chinese, unable to obtain UNRRA aid, are reported to bq dyin§ for lack of lood and medicine.
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Chronicle (Levin), 11 July 1946, Page 5
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