FIERCE BATTLE RAGING

Chronicle (Levin), 13 May 1949, Page 5

FIERCE BATTLE RAGING

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Received Friday, 10.10 a.m. E1IAKGKAI, May 12. Communist maPs ve.e offlciallj reporced this ar,:ernoan to be within strikiiiR' d..-.>iaa..e oi ihe kev innei defence point cf Eimkiang, only 20 miles soutli-Vvest oi Shanghai. Sunkiang is regard; d byfeilitary cbservcis a? ihe last important defenee prop alaa--; ihe Hangchow railway bv.ore ohanahai. Its loss would praetleahy mean the end of ihe Shanghai bait e. As the Comniuniet fcrees are fanning out, from Sunkiang along several nionen) rnov.r roads they could witkin short time lay seige to Shanghai and civ. ihe recrsat route of the Nationalists still battling desrcraiely to hold the Shangbai-N.n.'&iiri rai-wav city of Kunshi.n ' ? noi*ihwestsrn deieh'o p'i nr oi Tuk-rong. Today's romnr niqn said that bitt..r flghtinq i> ragin;; north o? Taichon?, v.Ti eivin ihe Conmunists are sufierhig hv.ivy i-r.suah.les. The NaiUK'ii.h Alr Fg.::"? over the Slmr ' ih a .ti in ihe yast 24 hoir/s iaiik ah : 1 - J C u munist cralt plying bet co. =• ha nrrth and sojfh bams cf tlv: Yangize. Mr. Williani Pr.-i.-h, N.Z.P.A.Rev.ter com r . ::i a rnessage frcm Can ou. a;:>: a Chinese Fore'.gn Ofb - -- v said that thc Govi ".a: t . world. "at the prcper moinen:.'' nwinnt fnrther American a'd. He addod that aid vonld be asked ie; :n orclcr to snpport the Ccv- nrncn h "dcvormined fight againr "I: wa- • "Ooruiiunists and her . IT .v ^ he-. ter the living condi'aai: tio- neop'.e."