Evening star., 1946-05-24
China Reds Put Peace
Up 10 Chang After
He Flies 10 Mukden
BY the Associoted Presz

NANKING, May pa high
Kuomintang official today said
the governments recapture of
Changchun opened the way for
resumption of peace negotia-
tions but a Communist spokes-
man countered that compli-
Gates the situation"
Nov we can begin to talk with
the COMMUNISTS" regarding peace
in Manchuria, said the Kuomintang
(national party official, who de-
manded anonymity.
Tung Pi-wu, Nanking Com
munist leader. said the party's peace
negotiator, Gen. Chouen-lai, had
delivered to Gen. George c. Mar
shall Communist Chairman Mao
Tse-tungs acceptance "in principle
Of the minority Democratic Leagues S
three-point truce proposal, but
added significantly:
THE key is not now in our hands.
We shall see what President Chang
Kai-shek will do"
Chang Flies to Mukden.
Tung's statement came in the
midst of otherwise optimistic de-
velopments as the troubled Man
churian situation reached climax
Gen. Chang made surprise flight
to Mukden, possibly on peace mis-
sion, and Secretary General Chi
Yien-ming of the Communist party
in Nanking flew to Shanghai to dis
cuss the Democratic Leagues truce
plan with league and youth party
officials.
Tung said everything hinged on
developments after the General
issimo returns from Mukden.
The Kuomintang official said the
capture of Changchun was necessary
to break the negotiations stale
mate which had existed since the
government made return Of the
Manchurian capital prerequisite
to further talks.
The main premise of the Demo-
cratic Leagues proposal was that
the Communists withdraw from
Changchun and the government
refrain from entering during peace
negotiation.
Tung described as entirely fan
tastic" insistent government as
sertions that Communist troops
were massed for an attack on
Tsinan, capital of Shantung prov
ince.
Meanwhile. Communist headquar-
ters here said it had sent formal
no" to the government reply to a
three-point proposal for cessation of
the propaganda war that Gen.
Marshall Monday demanded both
factions cease.
This is the cease propaganda
proposal, drawn up after meeting
of Minister of Information Peng
Hsueh-pei with Communists Chou
and Lu Ting-yi:
ALL news reports concerning
conflicts and armed clashes in North
China and Manchuria should be re-
ported only by executive (Sino-
American truce) headquarters in
Peiping.
2-End Immediately all SANDER
Gus and abusive language against
each other
3-Editorials must deal only in
theoretical criticism of each other
and must avoid "demagogic accusa-
tions."
The generalissimo's trip, on which
he was accompanied by Nine.
Chang and Gen. Pal Chung -hsi,
new Minister of National Defense,
was made, significantly, in the
personal plane of Gen. Marshall,
who is trying to effect a truce,
Although the official Central News
Agency reported Gen. Chang was
on an inspection tour, there was
speculation that his trip was a pre-
lude to peace
Gen. Chang conferred in Mukden
with Gen. Hsung Hsih-hui, director
of his Manchurian headquarters;
Gen. Tu Lining, commander in
chief of the Manchurian garrison,
and Hsu-chen, governor of Liaoning
Province.
In Mukden, meanwhile, govern
ment sources reported that National
troops captured Tungfen, 10 miles
east of Szepingkai, yesterday, ano
also seized Liaoyuan (Chengchia-
tun), a strategic point As miles
northwest of Szepingkai.
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