Evening star., 1945-11-05
Chinese Reds
Accuse Marines
0flntervenfion
White House Denies
u. S. Forces CIoshed
With Communists

U. S. MILITARY, MISSION to help
China reorganize armed forces.
Page A-4
By the Associated Press.
CHUNGKING, Nov. 5.-Chinese
Communist protests alleging
armed American intervention in
China's civil war broke out anew
today and were denied almost
Immediately in Chinese Central
Government circles.
(The White House said today
there have been no clashes be-
tween Chinese Communists and
United States armed forces. Eben
Ayers, assistant press secretary,
told a news conference that
President Truman had received
message from 1t Gen. Albert
c. Wedemeyer, commanding
American troops in China, in
forming the President that
there have been no clashes be-
tween Chinese Communists and
United States Marines")
Promise Denounced as "Lie."
. The Communist New China
Daily News bluntly called Gen.
Wedemeyer's recent promise of non-
Intervention nothing but a lie,"
and the Communist news agency
reported that troops and people in
liberated areas are indignant at
actions of American forces"
The charge against Gen. Wede-
meyer was carried in dispatch
from the Communist headquarters
at Yenan. The Americans, it said,
not only armed and equipped Gen.
trail Government troops, but have
invaded our liberated areas in North
China, opened fire on us, arrested
some Of our army personnel and
disarmed some of our troops"
When American Marines first
landed at Chinwangtao, the Com
munists sent representatives to con-
tact them, but "they were fired upon
and had to reply" the dispatch said,
adding the Communists Withdrew
after an hour of hostilities.
Sent 6 to Negotiate.
After the Marines had occupied
Chinwangtao and the nearby town
of Haiyang, the dispatch said, the
Communists, who were not informed
OF the Americans intentions, and
considering China's territorial
rights involved" sent six representa-
tives to negotiate with them.
The Americans arrested the ne
gotiators without explanation and
before releasing them, asserted the
News, threatened that the Com
munists would be dealt with by the
American Fleet and Marines"
The dispatch also charged that:
"a October 18 a detachment of 80
American and Chinese police arrest
ed five members Of the staff of the
Communist Office in the former
British concession in Tientsin.
CD American planes supported
puppet troops in threatening our
forces"
NV ACh faAuClACdu pldliCc 1IOIIl
Nanyuan airfield in the suburbs of
Peiping flew over the Communist
held town of Kuan on October 81
and dropped leaflets warning the
Communists to Withdraw in three
days.
Cd Later the same day IA Amer
lean planes strafed Kuan while q
mass meeting was being held.
Charges Marine Attack.
Earlier, in a dispatch from one o1
its correspondents, the Communist
paper had charged the Marines
with positively" participating in
armed Intervention in China's un-
declared civil war.
American Marines at Chinwang-
tao in cooperation with Kuomin-
tang troops attacked Communist
liberated areas for days." it said.
"On October 80 contingent oi
American Marines and troops be-
longing to the Kuomintang INA.
tionalist government 94th Army
attacked and occupied q point near
Shanhaikwan Ginyu. The Ameri.
cans disarmed IS Communist guer-
rillaS."
Chinwangtao, where Vice Admiral
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