Evening star., 1945-08-24
Delegate Sent to
Chungking to 7 ak
Over Problems
By the Associated Press,


CHUNGKING, Aug. 24.-Ofh-
cial Communist sources here
said today that Communist
Leader Mao Tse-tung had ac-
cepted Generalissimo Chang
Kai-shek's invitation to send a
representative to Chungking to
discuss peaceful settlement of
China's internal political prob
lens.
The prospective conference was
disclosed as the Chinese high COM
mand and the Chinese Communists
made conflicting claims about the
capture of KWeisui, capital of the
Inner Mongolia Province of Sui
yuan.
Communist headquarters at Ye-
nan said Communist forces entered
Kweisui, 26O miles west of Peiping,
August 18 and were forcing puppet
Mongolian troops, nominally under
japanese command, to surrender.
The communique was dated yester-
day.
The Chinese high command to-
day said Gen. Flu Tso-yi, Chungking-
appointed commander in Suiyan,
took Kweisui August 20. The COM
munique did not say whether the
town was captured from the Japa-
nese or from the Communists.
Gen. Chou Named Delegate.
The official Communist sources
said Mao had named Gen. Chou
En-lai as his representative in the
talks with Chang.
For the sake of unity" Mao was
quoted as saying, Il appoint Gen.
Chou En-lai to go to Chungking.
Please accept him as my delegate
and discuss matters with him.
The Communists had rejected a
previous invitation from Chang to
send representatives from Yenan to
Chungking to discuss their differ
ences with the national government.
The Yenan leaders have been de-
manding, among other things, full
share in surrender negotiations with
the japanese and repeatedly have
disregarded Chiang's instructions to
refrain from taking any independent
action.
Chang dispatched his second in
vitation to Mao last Monday as
observers openly expressed fears
that civil war was imminent. He
told Mao that efforts to achieve
national reconstruction and reap
Of 1n Nf rocic tof1nnD
against Japan depended to a great
extent" on his sending representa-
tives to Chungking for peaceful dis
cussions.
The generalissimo emphasized
that mo recrudesence of civil war
can be tolerated"
Drive Reported Planned.
Chiag's action followed reports
from North China that Communist
troops were moving to seize key
Chinese cities on the surrender Of
the japanese garrisons,
Only yesterday the New China
Daily News, Communist organ pub
lished in Chungking, said Com
munist troops in North Central
China had gathered their strength
for an all-out offensive" The paper
reported the Communists already
had entered Tientsin, were ap-
preaching the towns of Wanping
and Nanyuan near Peiping and had
surrounded the port of Tsintao in
Shantung Province.
Tor,oyroItr7icfc o1cn rnrnrt
ed to have entered Wuhu on the
Yangtze, SIS miles upstream from
Marking.
The Communists said they had
cut the Peiping-T g-Tientsin railway,
occupying the important railway
station of Yangtsun.
GA Domei broadcast from
Tokyo, recorded by the FEC, said
$4,000 Yenan troops also were ad-
vancing against Tsinan, in the
northern coastal province of
Shantung, while the Chungking-
appointed governor of Shantung,
with 5000 troops, was attempting
to occupy Tsinan from the east.
(Outer Mongolian troops-un-
der overall Soviet direction
were reported by Tokyo to be
continuing activities around
Changpeh, in Charhar Province
Just north of Kalgan and l60
miles northeast of Kweisui, Mon
golian gate to Peiping. They also
we're reported to have reached
Kupehkow at the Great Wall,
east of Kweisui and just 80 miles
northeast of PeipingD
13 Towns Reported Taken
The Chinese high command an
nounced that regulars had occupied
13 more town, including Fenghwa,