Evening star., 1946-02-22
Chinese Communists
Newspaper Wrecked
In Chuneking Battle
BY the As.oeioi.d Press

E & r
CHUNGKING, Feb. 22.-The
three-story downtown Office and
book store OF the Communist
New China Daily News was
wrecked today by intruders who
smashed all furniture and tossed
it out of windows with fittings,
personal belongings of employees
and books and papers, which
were torn to bits.
Communists charged the intrud-
ers were Kuomintang (NationaD
party secret service men. They said
the intruders battled Communist
employees from room to room and
floor to floor.
Two Are HOspitalized.
Two employees were hospitalized
with serious injuries, Meantime,
more than 10000 Chinese students
marched through Chungking streets,
demanding that Russia quit Man.
churia" and asking that Commun-
lists answer five questions Including
Who Is organizing puppet regimes
in Manchuria
Other questions were:
DO you love China?"
why did you prevent National
(government) troops entering Man
churia?"
why are you making new de-
mands?"
What do you mean by Peoples
Democratic tCommunist) army?"
Yalta Accord Attacked.
AS the students passed the New
China Daily News Building, some
hurled stones through windows, but
a Communist spokesman dismissed
the episode as "a minor incident. :"
That was three hours before the
newspapers Office were wrecked.
Unidentified intruders also wrecked
the business Offices of the Demo-
cratic Daily. mouthpiece of the
Democratic League which has been
protesting government policy in
Manchuria.
Five Chinese newspapers here
carried Joint protest by 20 nation
ally known scholars calling the
Yalta secret agreement the most
unjustif1ed in modern diplomatic
history.
They charged that the late Pres
ident Roosevelt traded Manchuria
for Russian support in the japanese
war and declared that his tragic
mistake" could not be excused de-
spite his contributions toward
victory.
Troop Moves Declared Halted.
Amid the spreading Quit Man
churia" clamor, several newspapers
reported that the Chinese process
of taking over there was at COM
plete standstill.
They said government officials
we're twiddling their thumbs, watt
ing to be in position to assume as
signed posts and that all govern
ment troop. movements for the pur-
pose of recovering Chinese SOW
ereignty had been halted.
The World Daily News reported
that Chang Ching-kuo, General
issimo Chang Kai-shek's elder son
who is special commissioner for
foreign affairs in Manchuria, left
Chungking February 20 on the Sec
ond visit to Moscow, where he is to
open discussions on the Manchurian
problem.
Dispatches from Peiping said a
seyen-man delegation representing
the newly established Eastern Mon
golian Republic planned to fly to
Chungking shortly to seek the
Chinese governments recognition
"as an independent state.
The, dispatches said the Mongolian
delegation arrived in Peiping from
Changchun, the Manchurian capital,
aboard Russian plane.
Garry Picture Of Stain.
The students parade, advertised
well in advance, attracted hundreds
of thousands of persons, who cheefed
the marchers.
One group OF paraders carried a
big picture of Premier Stain beside
a map of China bearing the red let
tered inscription Down with the
new imperialist."
The students, who yesterday ap-
|pealed to students throughout China
to demonstrate against Russia, bore
banners with these inscriptions:
Russian occupation of Manchuria
will cause World War III.
'Manchuria is ours; Sinkiang is
ours; Inner Mongolia must not be
| stolen"
THE Japs used to rape. loot, plum