Peace In China Depends On Communists
(N.Z.P.A,—
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Received Wednesday, 7 p.m. NANKING, Jan. 5. The majority of memljers of the Kuomintang ceiitral executive committ5e last night swung in favour of jieace with the Communists when, they debated informally future party policy. Most members expressed the view that . peace depended on the Communists since Chiang's New Year offer added that if the Reds refused now to aecept the oifer they would be branded as warmongers. The first Communist reaction to Chiang's olfer came over the Communist radio- when it broadeast comment by the New China newsagency calling Chiang's offer "nothing but blunder. " On the wai' front the threat to Tientsin increased today with the concentration of Communist forces in the vicinity of the eity. ComniUnist forces are reported to be dominating some 40 towns and villages around Tientsin, Dispatches from Peiping statq that cultural bodies, the Chamber of Commerce and other public institutions, have organised a joint commission for the j)i'otection of Peiping as a cultural centre and issued an appeal to make Peiping an open city.
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Chronicle (Levin), 6 January 1949, Page 5
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