Chinese Communists On Move For New Attack
Received Friday, 9.35 a m. NANKING. March 24. About 20,000 Communists of Gen- 1 era! Chen-king's Central China Armies are moving south in the Anhwei Province in an aitempt to attack Anking, an important strategic centre on the north bank of the Yanglse, 200 miles south-west of Nanking. Tne Anhwei Provincial Government, which had a temporary seat at Anking, has begun to evacuate the city. A Nationaiist military spokrsman stated that the Communists now had 30 armies spread along the north bank of the Yangtse in the Anhwei and Kiangsu provinces, and are continuing to expand the grip on the north bank 111 readiness for a crossing, which the spokesman said might come before May if the Communists' North China forces were brought south soon! enough. ■ I The spokesman said that the Communists were endeavouring to; sneak through the Nationaiist defences along the Yangtse in eivilian clothes. • ■ I Unconfirmed reports from Chin- ' kiam today said that ha?f of 40 Communist river craft which attempted to'cross the river llu miles norih-west of Shanghai had been sunk.
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Chronicle (Levin), 25 March 1949, Page 5
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