RED ADVANCES

Chronicle (Levin), 17 August 1949, Page 5

RED ADVANCES

Received Tuesday 7 p.m. HONG KONG, August 16. | The Nationalists have withdrawi: from Foochow, eapital of Fukien Province, aeeording to a Communist re port. The Nationalists left only a few gendarmes to maintain order. I The Nationalists have ordered tlv: evacuation of Nanhsiung on the Kiang si-Kwangtung highway witliin tlu Ivwantung Province. This followed a rapid advance bv General Lio Po Chen's armies after by-passing Kanchow and occupying Nankaiig. Lio Po Chen's annies are developing another drive towards the Ivwantung border east of the advance along the Kiangsi-Kwangtung highway. The new drive is aimed at the southern Hunan towns of Tingnan, Chiennan and Lunnan. These towns are on highway? which would enable the Communists either to approach the Hankow-Canton railway below Kukong at a point abou 70 miles north of Canton or make a sweep th rough Eastern Kwangtung. north of Hong Kong, direct to the eapital. The independent Chinese newspapei King.Sheung Daily News, quoting a spokesman of the Chinese National DeI fence IMinistry at Canton, said Mao Tse Tung, chairman of the Chinese ■ Communist Party, died on July 14 in Peiping. Afao is alleged to have died from tuberculosis. A Chinese military spokesman said that re^ports from his intelligence orti ce'rs beKmct 'th'e "06mmumslr Ilnes," indr ' cated that Mao Tse Tung was either ih or gone to Moscow on a special mission. He said Mao Tse Tung had been suffering from tuberculosis for some tirne aua some people suggested, owing to hi* non-appearance at recent publie fune tioris, that he was dead. The spokesman personally doubted this.