BROAD HINT FROM CHINA
NANKING, Jan. 3. A broad hint that the Nation ali3t North China Command is negotiating a political settlement with the Communists, is given by a municipal official 111 Peiping, says the Associated Press. The official said that Peiping, which was en•eircled by Communists, had only enough flour to last three weeks. Asked what would happen after that, he said: "There is no need to worry. We will have a political setttlement before then. " Reuter's Shanghai correspondent reports that the local city eouncil sent a radio message last night to Maotsetung and other Communist top-ranking leaders, appealing . f or an immediate cease fire order and their agreement for negotiations with Nanking. Communist forces which last week lost Fancheng in North Ilupeh to the Nationalists, are retreating in three directions to the neighbouring Honan I'rovince, aecording to a Nationalist military news agency dispatch from Ilankow. Nationalist forees are in pursuit.
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Chronicle (Levin), 4 January 1949, Page 5
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