Great Battle Raging In Northern China
Received Fridav, 7 p.m. LONPON, July 2. Reuter 's Slianghax correspondent sgys 300,000 Nationalists and (lommunist troops are locked in battle on the Honan plain southeast of Kaifeng. 1 The Communists are employing nine armies with further f'orees massed some distance wmst and east of the flghting zone awqiting further oi'ders. Lieut.Qeneral Teng AVen-Yi, Government "military Bpo-kesman, said the battle was taking the fdrm of positional warfare on a scale hitherto unprecedented in China's civil war. Dispatches state that no clear picture of the actual fighting has been obtainable tlxus far. Tfle battle deyeloped as a result of the Government olfensive cjesigned to clear the Reds from south of the Yangtse River.
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Chronicle (Levin), 3 July 1948, Page 5
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