REDS NEARING SHANGHAI

Chronicle (Levin), 29 April 1949, Page 5

REDS NEARING SHANGHAI

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Received Friday, 10, io a,m. SHANGHAI, April 28. CBinese Communist troops dro-ve within 35 rniies of siranghai today, arrd tonight what may be the las American evacuation ship sailed for Japan. The United Staies Navj olosed virtually all its remaining .5hore installations. The BriLish Air Attache in Shanghai announced that the R.A.F. CQmmands at Hong Kon.g and Singapore had been alerted for che possib'e evacuation of British ?people in Shanghai. He added that action woul'd be taken on thi£? routine procedure only if a serious emergeney arose which was not fureseen at present. Plans for the protection of British nationa"'s hac been worked out and no genera! evacuauion was contemplated. The American-owned evening aewspaper Post and Mercury said today that the Kuorriintang had decided to establish a Supreme Political Aifairs Councii, with Marshal Chiang Kai-Shek at ohairman and Mr. Li Tsung-jen deputy chairman, to hand'e the continued Nationalist resistance Marshal Chiang Kai-Shek, who left Shanghai yesterday, arrived at the port of Amoy on a Chinese warship today. MeanwhUe. the latest war reports say Hangchow, strategic central pivot of the new Nationalist de;ence line 100 miles southwest oi Shanghai, is preparing to meet any emergeney. Communist snearheads are reporled about 60 miles north oi Hangchow. Other Communist columns which crossed the Yangtse, each of Nanking, are reported to be moving east from Soochow towards Shanghai and south towards Kashing, 60 miles southwest of Shanghai.