COMMUNIST CONCESSIONS
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Effort To Averl BreqRdpwn 0f Peace Parjey
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Received Monday, 10.5 a.m. NANKIJfQ, April lp. General Chang ChiTChun'g, leader pf the Nationafisfc peace .delegapion in Peiping, has serit 1 a report to the President, Mr. Li Tsuhg Jan, regarding a series of concessions made by the Gommunist ieader, General Mao Tse-Tung, to avert g breakdown qf the .pa.rlpys. ' Aceording to informed Chipe^e sources, General phahg infprpied the Prpsident that General Mao Tse-Tung, firstly, expressed will.ingness to withdraw the recent 'demand that the Red armies be allowed a "peaceful crossing" of the Yangtse1 during the peace negotiations to assist the reorganisatiop - -e Nationalist forces and roundingup of war criminals; secondly, tp General Mao is no longer insisting on the Nationalists c arifying tjieir final attitude tpwards the Copimunists' eight peace '1 errps tefore April 12; and, thirdly, that General Ifeo is prepared to make some co-n-cession on the1 demand for the arrest and punishment of war criminals. „ . Meanwhile, reports from Ghinkiang today said that Gommunist heavy guns are shelling Nationalfst p sitions on th.6 soutti bank of ttiB Yangtse and the Communists are attacking the Kwachow brjdgehead, on the nqrth bank.
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Chronicle (Levin), 11 April 1949, Page 5
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