Evening star., 1946-05-27
Chiang's Forces Push
North for Possible
Battle at Harbin
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press
NANKING, May 27-General-
issimo Chang Kai-shek's forces
pushed north today toward a
possible new battle with Chinese
Communists at Harbin, Man
churia, while Gen. George c.
Marshall prepared the ground
work for reopening of peace ne
gotiations by the generalissimo
Dispatches to independent and
progovernment newspapers place
/ government troops in the vicinity
Of TehhWei. 80 miles southwest of
Communicated Harbin Tehhwei
/ is so miles northeast of Chaung-
! chun, Manchurian capital city re-
| taken easily by Chiang's forces on
| Thursday as the Communists with
drew.
! Recapture of Changchun and the
renewal of direct negotiations be-
! tween opposing factions brought the
optimistic prediction from the
Peiping newspaper Hsin Min Pao
that a general truce would be ar
ranged by tomorrow.
/ All observers agreed. however,
that much will depend on Chang S
next move. He and Nine. Chang
were expected to return today from
conferences with Chiangs generals
at Mukden.
Turning Point for Government.
This is the turning point for the
government Wang Ping man, Com
munlSt leader. told the Associated
Press. And it must now decide
whether it wishes to solve the Man.
churlan question peacefully or
through continued civil war"
II the government troops push ne-
yond Changchun, he added. the
Communists will interpret this as
sign the government wishes to en-
large the civil strife, sin which case
1t Is inevitable we should resist"
Wang returned today from a two
day conference in Shanghai with
members of the third party Demo-
cratic League. He said a delegation
from the league would arrive in Man.
king tomorrow to arrange a meeting
with government representatives
over the leagues program for peace
in Manchuria.
] Wang said the delegates will sug-
9eSt that the government forces
evacuate Changchun and leave it in
the hands of the Northeast Political
Administrative Council, a coalition
group.
Gen. Hsu Yung chang. govern
ment member of the committee of
three. resumed talks today with
Gen. Marshall, special American en-
voy to China, which were broken
of 10 days ago at the start of the
! Szeplngkai-Changchun drive. The
meeting was interpreted here as
preliminary to fulldress resumption
of the committee conference which
halted a month ago.
/ A high Kuomintang party official
here declared his belief that peace
now is in sight but that the Com
munlsts must give up Harbin and
TSitihar.
The Communists Yenan radio
declared that the feeling for ma
tionwide peace and democracy by
by Chinese at home and overseas
mounted with the growing civil war
hostilities of the past month";
+ Gen. Marshall conferred for two
and one-half hours yesterday with
Gen. Chou En-lai, chief negotiator
for the Communists. He also talked
with Premier T. V. Soong, presum-
ably on projected $500 100000 i'm
port-export loan to China.
| Gen. Teng Tai-yuan, deputy
chief of staff of the Communist 9th
Route Army, arrived in Nanking
aboard an American transport plane
to report to Gen. Chou on progress
of the Communist rehabilitation
program. His report was awaited by
both Nationalists and Communists