RAIL CENTRES CAPTURED
MANCHURIA AND NORTH CHINA
Rec. 7.30 p.m. NANKING, Nov. 30. Communist forces in Manchuria and North China have gained two important rail centres, according to reliable reports received in Nanking. In Manchuria, a Communist force captured the Changtu rail junction, midway between Mukden and Changchun. Below the Great Wall, the Communists captured Kaomi, an important rail centre on the Tientsin-Pukow railway, after bitter street fighting. The Communists, who are imperilling the Nationalist position all along the Shantung Peninsula, drove within sight of the United States naval base at Tsingtao. The attackers were reported to have ejected the Nationalist defenders from a position directly across Kiachow Bay from Tsingtao. where the United States Navy maintains a considerable number of ships in connection with the Chinese Nationalist Navy training programme.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26633, 2 December 1947, Page 5
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