Communists Take Another City in North China

Grey River Argus, 24 November 1948, Page 7

Communists Take Another City in North China

NANKING, Nov. 22

A Chinese Communist broadcast to-day said the Communists had captured Panting, 90 miles south-west of Peking, and that the Government garrison had fled northwards. This has not been confirmed from other quarters. Fierce fighting continues on both sides of the Lunghai railway, east of Suchow. where two Government columns are trying to converge on the Janchuan area to rescue General Huangpo Tao’s army group, which is encircled by Communists, according to pro-Government dispatches. Independent sources express fear that Nationalist troops in the area may be doomed. One hundred and sixty-two nationals left Shanghai for San Francisco to-day aboard a transport ship

Communist Menace in South-east Asia

LONDON. Nov. 22. The Daily Telegraph says: A Communist victory in China would strengthen all the subversive elements in Malaya. Indo-China, and the Netherlands East Indies, which, aim at the destruction of ordered government. The stake in China is whether something like half the world is to be dominated by the ideas and policy emanating from Moscow. Upon Anierican decisions now may turn the whole of Asia’s future., and should Communism win the day there will emerge a major threat to every country bordering on the Pacific.