Evening star., 1945-11-04
Two Vital Cities
Reported Taken
ByChinese Reds
Suiyuon Capitol and
Important Roll Point
Declared Overrun

Declared Overrun
AMERICAN DIPLOMATS alarmed
over spread of China fighting.
Page A-4.
By the Associated Press.
CHUNGKING, Nov. 3.-A North
China provincial capital and a
railway city fell today to attack
Ing Chinese Communists, unoffl-
cial reports said, as Reds in
Chungking received with skep-
ticism a new four-point Ma
tionalist proposal to end the
spreading civil warfare.
Unconfirmed reports said Kwei-
sui, capital of the partly industrial
lied Inner Mongolian province of
Suiyuan, fell to the overwhelming
force of Communists who opened
the attack only yesterday.
These same reports said the vital
railway'ci of Tatung to the SOUTH
west also was overrun by the Com
n1unists.
If true, the twin victories would
greatly strengthen the Communist
position in Inner. Mongolia and
would hamper attempts by slender
Nationalist forces there to join up
with fresh Nationalist troops now
pouring In by air to the Peiping-
Tientsin zone.
Plan for Offensive Denied.
Despite these reported successes,
Communist sources here expressed
fears that the government was
about to strike with a heavy Of
fensive to crush the Reds and de-
clared 100000 Nationalist troops
had been massed in Northern and
East-Central China.
The Chinese Ministry of Informa-
ton said the government never had
contemplated an offensive against
the Communists and that govern
ment troops were purely on the
defensive"
The ministry also labeled as
completely unfounded" Communist
accusations that the government
was using Japanese troops and
poison gas against Reds in Shansi
province.
A Communist spokesman declared
without confirmation elsewhere that
fighting had spread to Manchuria,
now being evacuated by Russian
occupation forces. He said it CEN
tered at the South Manchurian port
OF Hulutao, where Chinese Nation
alist troops were landed earlier this
week from American transports.
Communist Reply Awaited.
The spokesman scotlitered the
Chungking peace proposal with this
statement:
When all Kuomintang (Nation-
alist, troops throughout the coun-
try are asked to stop fighting, the
Communists will do likewise"
K. G. WI, Chungking Minister of
Information, announced the new
peace plan earlier In the day and
said reply was being awaited from
the Communist stronghold in
Yenan.
He listed these four points:
1. Both sides should order their
troops to stay put" and halt all
attacks.
2. The Communists should with
draw 10 kilometers co. miles, from
the railroads. The government then
would agree not to send troops to
points abandoned or exposed to
Communist raids and would use
railway police to guard the lines.
8. The government would consult
Communists before moving any
troops along the railroads. This
conformed with Communist re-
quest but skipped the question of
moving government troops by sea
and air.
4. The Peoples Political Council
should appoint a supervisory COM
mission to investigate conditions
along the railroads and report any
F4O2dtAoa Ny CltllCI SlQ6.
Wants General Cease Fire.
The Nationalist peace proposals.
the Communist spokesman said,
would restrict the governments
cease fire order "to few hot spots"
whereas 1t should apply all over
the country.
He agreed to the plan to turn the
railways over to police, but insisted
that Chungking's offer did not in
clude two OF the most important
railways-the Peiping -Mukden and
Tientsin-P Pukow railways. both now
largely Communist controlled.
Government quarters said the new
peace proposals were concessions In
spired by genuine desire to halt
hostilities.
Sentiment throughout China is
overwhelmingly against civil war,
but pessimists assert that both sides
are stalling. They insist no concrete
peace plan will come from present
debates between Chungking and
Yenan.
Communist sources in Yenan and
Chungking declared that govern
ment troops massing for an all-out
offensive already had surrounded
Communist forces in Western Honan
and Eastern Hopei provinces of
Northeastern China.
The same sources claimed China,s
new 9Th Army, equipped and
trained by the Americans in North
Burma, had launched a powerful
attack along the Tientsin- -Pukow
railroad, badly needed artery over
which Chungking proposes to move
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