Evening star., 1946-04-29
Efforts 10 Settle
Manchuriia War
End in Failure
Marshall Unable to
Bridge Differences,
Announcement Says
BY the Associated Pies,

By the Associated Press
CHUNGKING, April 29.-The
utmost powers of Gen. George
c. Marshall, President Truman's
special envoy, have not been
enough to bridge the difference
between the Chinese Communists
and the National government,
and the settlement of the Man.
churian civil war faces an in
definite delay, it was announced
tonight.
Informed Chinese sources said
Generalissimo Chang Kai-shek had
rejected the Democratic League
formula for the "cease-flre" agree
ment which would have left the
Communists in possession of a
large part of Manchuria. The sources
indicated the generalissimo prefer
red to wait until his armies had
fought their way northward and
had recaptured Changchun before
halting hostilities.
Shifts Headquarters.
Gen. Marshall, who has been con-
ferring almost ceaselessly in recent
days with Chang and Communist
Leader Gen. Chou En-lai in an
effort to reach an agreement, gave
the order to transfer his head
quarters to Marking tomorrow.
A Communist spokesman con-
firmed that negotiations had ended
in Chungking, but said they would
be resumed in few days in Nam
king, where the Communist dele
cation is moving
Chang also is expected to 60
to Nanking Friday.
During the last week Gen. Mar
shall, Chou and Chang considered
various proposals to halt the fight
ing in :Manuchuria. The latest,
drafted by the Democratic League,
had the approval of both the Com
munists and Gen. Marshall. 1t was
presented last night to Chang. The
breaking off of the negotiations was
accepted as indication that he had
rejected it.
Higher Price on Agreement.
Informed sources said the Com
munists, who a month ago were
willing to surrender their, claims to
Changchun, the Manchurian capital,
Harbin and the Mukden-Harbin rail
line in return for cease-f1re order
and retention of the interior areas
of Manchuria, now were putting
much higher price on the agreement
to peace.
Their leaders are insisting. the
sources said, that status quo" set
tlement, leaving the Communists in
possession of approximately eight
ninths of Manchuria, be negotiated
1t is known that Gen. Marshall
had been doing his utmost to halt
the fighting before the government
troops driving northward from be-
seiged Szepingkai (still in Com
munist hands, encountered Com
munist troops blocking their route
into Changchun.
The pro-government Peace Daily
News published a dispatch dated
Mukden and asserting that nearly
1000 peace preservation govern
ment) troops from the former
Changchun garrison had escaped
the Communist ring encircling them
and had reached government lines
near Szepingkai. The number is
nearly half of the original Chang
chun garrison.
A Democratic League spokesman
said earlier that if the shift to
Marking interrupted negotiations
there may be a long delay before
negotiator can reassemble in Nam
king.
Holdings Extended.
In Marking, the newspaper Tia
Kung Pao said the Communists had
extended their holdings by seizing
Lungkiang (Tsitsihar, capital of
Nunkiang Province northwest of
Harbin-also In Communist hands.
From Canton, Associated Press
Correspondent Richard Massock re-
ported new trouble between the
government and South China Com
munists. A military spokesman told
him that Communists on the East
River and in Northern Kwantung
Province were looting river craft
and exacting protection fees. The
spokesman said government troops
were keeping the Communists lin
check"
A delegation of the committee of
three from Chungking, headed by
American Col. j. Hart Caughey, re-
Gently concluded an agreement at
Canton to send Communists of the
East River column to Chefoo, in
Province, by American
ships. The agreement provided for
a concentration of 2,400 armed Com
munist troops at Bias Bay, with the
understanding by government
forces that they would not inter-
fere with the Communists en- route
to the concentration mint