Evening star., 1946-03-16
Troops Trained
BY U. 5. on Way
TO Manchuria
Marshall Tells Press
Situation There Is
Extremely Critical

Gen. George C. Marshall,
President Truman's special en-
voy to China, said today the sit
uation in Manchuria is "ex-
tremely critical and disclosed
that the Chinese Nationalist
governments crack American
trained troops are on the way
there.
American and Chinese Ihree-man
teams" also are going into Man.
churia, he told a news conference,
today, to implement agreements
reached at Chungking for unity be-
tween the Nationalist government
and Chinese Communist forces.
Success of the efforts for Chinese
unity is of vital Importance" he
declared, "if we are to have the
peace we hope for in the Pacific"
Gen. Marshall attributed con-
tinued fighting between Nationalist
and Communist forces in Manchuria
largely to difficulty in getting word
to the contending factions of the
unity agreements which he helped
to negotiate, saying he believed the
Communists in Manchuria were "al-
most unaware" of the agreements.
80 Divisions Developed.
The Nationalist government, he
said, has SO Army divisions de-
veloped with American aid in ma
teriel and training and that army
is now embarking for Manchuria." ;"
Gen. Marshall's statements CO.
incided with dispatches from
Chungking saying that the Kuomin-
tang (NationaD Party Congress had
demanded quick restoration OF
Chinese sovereignty over Man.
churia and immediate withdrawal
OF Soviet troops from that area.
Gen. Marshall described himself
as certain of the sympathetic In
terest of the American people in
China but not so certain of their
understanding or the understand
ing of their political leaders of the
vital importance" or conditions in
China to the maintenance of peace
in the Pacific and Asia.
Although he has just come from
China and from Japan, where he
saw Gen. Macarthur, Gen. Marshall
said he did not know exactly what
is happening in Manchuria since
there have been no American OBJ
servers there.
U. S. Consul in Dairen.
He made that comment when
asked whether the Russians, who
recently pulled out of the city of
Mukden, are eyacuating all of the
strategic North China area. Gen.
Marshall said he had established an
American consul In Dairen and that
another United States representa-
tive is moving Immediately into
Mukden.
Gen. Marshall said the RESPONSE
bll1ty for restoring Manchuria to
the sovereignty of the Chinese gov
ernment of Generalissimo Chang
Kai-shek rests on Chinese govern
ment forces rather than Commu-
mist units which have been operat-
ing in the Manchurian area.
Nothing in the Nationalist COM
munist agreement thus far made,
he said, has changed the response
bility which the United States as
sumed for moving the government
troops by sea into the Manchurian
area-so that evidently the ships
on which the Army presently is EN-
barking are American ships, though
Gen. Marshall did not say so.
Will Return to China Soon.
Gen. Marshall, who returned to
Washington by plane yesterday and
conferred later with Mr.. Truman
and Secretary of State Byrnes, said
he expected to return to China
soon.
The three-man teams going into
Manchuria, he said, are composed
OF an American Army representa-
tive, a representative of the Chi
nese Nationalist government and .
representative of the Chinese Com
munist forces. He said such teams
had had great success in other
parts of China in stopping fighting
between local Nationalist and
Communist forces.
These teams work out of a joint
headquarters established in Peiping
with an American chairman, he ex-
planned. Without such a headquar-
ters and teams in the field 1t is
impossible to carry out the unity
(See MARSHALL, Page AID