FOR RAILWAYS
Struggle In China
BATTLES FOUGHT
LONDON, October 28, A Chinese Communist military spokesman said tonight that Chinese Government and Chinese Communist troops were struggling for control of the railways in 11 provinces in northern and central China, and that the fighting ranged from local clashes to small battles. He' indicated t^iat the Communists would not give up the territory along the railway as requested by Chungking unless the .Government confined the traffic to civilian passengers and goods, and alleged that the Chinese Government had formed Japanese troops into a volunteer corps to fight the Communists. The Communists also charged that Government troops whom United States planes had brought to the Tientsin-Peiping area were planning to march westward along the Peiping-Suiyuan railway, 'of \ which the Communists control 150 miles. "We* cannot consider the situation represents civil war until ■ Chiang Kai-shek proclaims it to be so and calls the Communists rebels," the military spokesman said. The Government-controlled Central News Agency says that Communists have'blown up a dike on the Yellow Eiver and flooded a vast area.
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Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 103, 29 October 1945, Page 7
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176FOR RAILWAYS Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 103, 29 October 1945, Page 7
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