FEARS FOR CHINA'S FUTURE

Chronicle (Levin), 27 July 1946, Page 5

FEARS FOR CHINA'S FUTURE

MAY BE DIVIDED FOR YEARS BY WAR Received Friday, 7 p.m. :>.y ■ / YF.'-^Y•^C^^KiXG; jtuly •2-5. = y that flhina" nxay. be/cti \ddetlAfS.r. Jy e'arhif by : bej tween the '^ViVmmiist^ aird The ^oYern-1 ment, says the Associated Press. Many well-ihformed quarters assert that 11 General Marshall (U".(S.A.) finally clecided tliat the Peace mission had failed, the only alternatives would be a war ot exterinination between the two factioiis or an uneasy contin'ua.tioii of the status quo with the Communists ruling aboui one-.third of the population and the Government the remainder. Many observers predict that Chiang Ivai-shek might choose the second aiternative, hoping to rebuild China to a poi 11 1 where the people themselves would demand unity. The Communists today admit that Government troops have penetrated 5U miles into the C'ommunist areas nortu of Yartgtse in Ivi ang.su province. Tliey say half a million Goveriiment troops are involved, 20,000 whereof have been lost to date in the full-.seale ofl'ensive along the 130-mile front. Nationalist forces have capturen Lingpi, 55 miles southeast of (Suchow rail junction and penetrated 50 miles from the south into Kiangsu in tne Anhwei border region, says the Xew York Times' correspondent. Communist sources state the farthest advance on the southern front has been made in the Pantachi area, 45 miles north of Nanking, the Communists apparently avoiding a decisive battle.

Ihe Yenan radio reports that Government armies are condueting six ofi'ensives eastward on an 80-miles railway Iront from Huch'oW south wards. The Central Government armies are eoncerging on Huaying w.hich is Communist military headquarters for Kiangsu, and lies 70 miles north of the farthest point in the Nationalist advanee from Kiangsu. RAPE OF NANKING Berserk Japane.se soldiers slaughtered rnore than 200,000 Chinese in an orgy or crime after tlie fall of Nanking in 193Y, according to evidence given at International Wai' Crimes Tribunal.