Evening star., 1946-09-11
|Chinese Communists
Reject Gen. Chang S
Proposals for Truce
BY the Associoted Pres,

NANKING. Sept. 11.-Th,
Communists today rejected Gen.
eralissimo Chang Kai-shek'.
latest truce proposal as unsatis.
factory, booming any immediate
hopes of political settlement o1
China's mounting civil strife.
Gen. George c. Marshall, specia
American envoy. communicated tn,
generalissimo's undisclosed terms fol
a nation wide armistice in a two
hour conference with Gen. Cho,
En-lai. No. Chinese Communist
Then Communist spokesman Wanl
Ping-man reported:
I'VE continue to demand uncon.
ditional cease fire. We will not &C.
cept any other conditions. The sit.
uation remains serious"
Stuart Committee Out.
The Communist reaction appeared
to throw into the discard the Stuar
committee of five which nevel
has met. American Ambassador j
Leighton Stuart, its chairman, hac
hoped it would lay the groundwork
for creation Of an all-party stat.
council.
Communists refused to sit on thil
committee until the generalissimt
promised to invoke an armiStice a!
soon as it reached an agreement.
Some sources said Gen. Chang,
terms included his original demand
for Communist evacuation of fiv,
key areas.
Observers speculated on a poSsibl,
major change in American policy
an end to mediation efforts-unles!
the strife were ended speedily.
Coincidentally there were uncon.
firmed reports of sizable air activity
at the Communists hitherto deserted
Yenan airfeld, and of a frustrated
government plot to seize Harbin
Manchuria, by simultaneous revolt
from within and attack from with.
out.
Planes Reported at Yenan.
Ia Kung Pao (Strength Daily
dispatches reported So unmarked
aircraft had landed at Yenan Sep.
tember and that 80 others hat
taken off from Yenan that day fo1
undisclosed destinations. The Com.
munists have no known air force
Observers here doubted the report.
The Yenan radio reported the sup.
posed government plot to infiltrate
Harbin. Manchurian industrial cen.
ter, and said the arrest of many
conspirators \had frustrated the
whole plan.
Front-line dispatches showed gov
ernment troops advancing steadily
through scattered North China
Communist zones-and within 4C
miles of the Communist regional
capital, Kalgan.
In Peiping, government dispatches
reported that three government
armies converged on Tsunhwa
Communist military headquarters
in East Hopeh Province, from five
The offensive to crush
Reds in Hopeh was co-ordinated
with the governments assault
against the Communist military
base at Kalgan.
More than $4,000 Communist reg.
ulars under Gen. Ii Yun-chans
were reported in the Tsunhwa area
80 miles east of Peiping.
The Catholic newspaper socia
Welfare said the Nationalists al.
ready had "purged" Communist.
from the plain between the Peiping.
Mukden railroad and the Poha
coastline. Military sources esti-
mated two weeks would be required
to clear the Reds out OF the area
west OF the railroad.
Four Passes Evacuated.
The Communists were reported tc
have evacuated four passes through
the Great Wall to avoid entrapment
Fighting also was reported in the
vicinity Of Paoting, capital of Hopeh
In Tientsin. government dispatches
said national troops were within
miles Of Tsining. communications
center in Suiyuan Province and one
of the main lines In the Communist
chain between Yenan and Man.
churia.
The dispatches said two executive
headquarters planes from Peiping
had landed at Tsining Airfield with
supplies for a truce team inside
the city.
Peiping dispatches yesterday re-
ported that 1t. r. w. Clark, Engle-
wood, Colo, member of the truce
team, was injured slightly as govern
ment forces attacked Tsining.