Evening star., 1945-11-28
Nationalist Admit
Capture Of Important
Road Center by Reds
BY the Associated Press.

CHUNGkING, Nov. 28.-The CHI
nese government admitted today the
loss of the important Southern
Hopei Province highway center OF
Feisiang to besieging Communists.
But Nationalists, meanwhile, were
reported to have begun long delayed
landings at the captured Manchuri-
an seaport of Hulutao.
Felslang, described by the Ma
tionalistS as one of the insurgents
main objectives, fell after a three
month siege. The deputy command
er OF the towns garrison was killed
in action. The highway center is
east OF the Peiping- -Hankow railroad
An unconflrmed dispatch in the
Chungklng Commercial Daily News
said government forces had started
landing at Hulutao. recently occu-
pied by government troops after
evacuation by Communist forces.
The report did not say whether
American transports were used.
Hulutao provides a strategically
valuable landing site for troops to be
used in the Nationalist drive on
Changchun, capital of the province.
Red Attacks RepeIled.
Communist attacks on Han
thuang, 80 miles north of the rail
junction city of Tsuchow on the
Peiping-HankoW railroad, were re-
PEELED, Nationalist dispatches said.
The World Daily News said to-
day that Chinese-Russian agree
ment had been reached on two
points:
l. Nationalists may land airborne
troops at Changchun and Mukden,
Manchuria, and ground crews may
proceed Immediately to both points.
2. The Russian withdrawal from
Manchuria will be completed by
mid-January.
There was no indication what
China might have promised in re-
turn.
An American military leader, Mai
Gen. Keller Rockey, commander of
American Marines in North China,
was quoted by the Shanghai Gen.
tral News correspondent as taking a
grave view of the situation in North
China.
Gen. Rockey said the Marines are
not contemplating any drastic meas
ureS against the Communists who
daily are attacking the rail line be-
tween Peiping and Chinwangtao,
but American lives and property
would continue to be protected. The
railroad is the only supply line for
$4,000 Marines in North China.
Marines in Manchuria.
1t would be hard to predict, Gen.
Rockey said, when the Marines
would withdraw, as it depended on
completion of disarming of the Jap
anese. The majority have been dis
armed, but part have taken up guard
duties along the various railways.
The Marine commander empha-
sized there is not one single Marine
in Manchuria. He was reticent on
future activities of the Marines in
North China.
1t. Gen. Albert c. Wedemeyer,
commander of American forces in
the China theater, arrived in Chung
king tonight for important confer
ences with GeneraliSsimo Chang
Kai-shek and Premier T. V. Soong,
probably over the impending visit
of the new American envoy, Gen.
Marshall, and the surprise resigna-
ton of his predecessor, Ambassador
Patrick j. Hurley.
Meanwhile, the Government desig-
mated September 3 as the official
date of the termination of the Sino-
japanese war, which began June 7,
1887.
A foreign Office spokesman reso-
lutely refused to discuss the status
of Sino-Soviet negotiations on Man
churia. Nor would he confirm or
deny allegations that Russia had de-
manded joint control of the main
mines, power resources and other
enterprises in Manchuria