Evening star., 1945-10-31

Russians Permit
Chinese Landing
In Mancnuriia
100000 Communist
Troops Reported in
Attack on Rail City
by the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
CHUNGKING, Oct. 31.-Soyiet
and Chinese military authorities
have agreed on arrangements for
the landing of Chinese govern
ment troops in Manchuria, an
official dispatch from Chang
chun reported today.
Discussions preceding the agree
ment were conducted in a most
cordial atmosphere, the report said.
Chang Chin-kuo, eldest son of Gen.
eralissimo Chang Kai-shek, partici-
pated in the conferences, it added.
Meanwhile, fighting continued in
Northern China, and Gen. Yen Hsi-
shan, Governor of Shansi Province,
asserted without confirmation today
that 100000 Chinese Reds were at
tacking the railroad junction OF
Tatung in Northern Shansi.
Planes Reported Behind Lines.
Gen. Yen said he was "75 per cent
certain" that the Communists are
being directed by Gen. Chu !Teh,
Communist commander In chief.
The Shansi governor claimed he
had received reports while visiting
here that unidentified aircraft
have been landing behind the Com
munist lines" but he refused to elab-
crate on the subject.
He said the attacking forces were
using more than 10 field guns and
Is or 20 tanks. The tanks, accord
ing to reports I've received, were
manned by men dressed like Outer
Mongolians"
Tatung is at the junction of the
Peiping -Suiyuan and the Puchow
railroads.
"Tatung is in great danger said
Gen. Yen.
Defended BY 10000 Troops.
He said the city was being de-
Tended by 10000 troops under his
deputy commander, but, he added,
the defenders had only 10 field guns
and no tanks.
Il have ordered the garrison there
to fight to the DEATH" he declared.
Gen. Yen said the attack on Ia
tung was being led by Ho Lung.
whom he described as one of the
best Communist generals.
| Shansi provincial troops were too
dispersed, Gen. Yen said, to come
to the relief of Tatung, "and we
must rely on the Central Govern
ment for reinforcements."
Gin connection with earlier
| Communist charges that the
United States was meddling in
Chinese affairs, Secretary of
| State ByrneS said today at his
| press conference he did not know
the exact situation in North
China, but pointed out that the
United States had a RESPONSE
bIity to assist Gen. Chang in
effecting the surrender of Japa-
nese remaining in China.)
A Communist spokesman said
Gen. Yen's accusation that tanks
manned by men dressed like Outer
Mongolians were participating Ia
the attack on Tatung was 'Kuomin-
tang propaganda trying to imply
that we are getting Russian support
SO that Chang Kaisshek can appeal
for American help"
The spokesman added that Com
munists had learned that Gen.
Chang was planning to send some
Of his crack troops to Shansi and
Suiyuan Province very soon.''
Charge Troop Moves.
In their statement the Yenan
Communists said Gen. Chang not
only plotted the war, but that he
had moved troops for that purpose
a. the very time the Communist
leader, Mao Tse-tung, was in
Chungking for the purpose of dis
cussing means of averting internal
strife and unifying China
As the talks proceeded, the state
ment said, Gen. Chang massed
eight crack armies against the
Communists in Northern Honan
Province and along the Peiping-
Hankow railroad. Then about 200,-
600 government, japanese and pup
| pet troops began attacks, seized
eight big towns and more than 100
townships and villages from which
the Communists Withdrew ito avoid
large-scale conflict
But, continued the document,
despite the conciliatory policy" of
the Communists, government forces
pushed on with a clear intention of
fighting their way to Peiping. All
railroad stations between Tzehsien,