Evening star., 1949-01-23
Peiping Gives Up to Reds In Deal
Hintinq All China Peace Pattern;
Gen. Flu off War Criminal List
Marking Striving
For Terms Short OF
TotuI Surrender
BY the Associoted Press

NANKING, Jan. %. - Peiping
made its long-expected separate
surrender deal with the Com
munists tonight even as the
rickety Chinese government
sought a nationwide peace at
almost any price.
Gen. Flu Tso-yi's North China
headquarters announced a ceaSe-fire
had ended the 40-day Red siege Of
Peiping and that some units of Gen.
Fu's 125,000-man army had already
begun an agreed march out OF the
city.
A week ago, Peiping's surrender
would have thrown this capital into
CONSERVATION. Today it brought
from official sources only the reac-
ton 1t probably will speed a nation
wide settlement. !
The successful Peiping negotia-
tions, which at least saved face for
Gen. Flu, increased the hopes of
peace proponents in Nanking SIM
liar formula might be applied to
all China.
Flu Reported Cleared.
Terms previously reported in
cluded removal of Gen. Fu's name
from the Communists war crimi-
mails" list.
The Communists had treated Peip-
f,,o riroorl1, fhra,1nhp,,t tho Sicoo
declaring they did not want to de-
stroy that intellectual and spiritual
center of China. A more practical
reason probably was that they
wanted it intact for their capital
No such consideration was shown
towards Nanking. Despite the de-
parture of Generalissimo Chang
Kai-shek-at least partly meeting
one of their demands-the Reds
gave no indication they would make
concessions to the frenzied pleas of
Chiang's political heirs.
(The Reds are in position mill
tarily to enforce a fiat surrender
on their own terms. A Com
munist broadcast heard in San
Francisco said Chiang's retire.
ment was an American-insti-
gated stunt and "all indications"
were that Nanking has no desire
for genuine, democratice peace.)
Peace Mission Named.
With Chang In reluctant retire.
ment and all North China gone
except for isolated Tsingtao and
Taiyuan - the disintegrating Ma
tionalist regime was trying franti-
cally to end the civil war on some
terms short of total surrender.
Acting President Ii Tsung-jen
appointed q fve-man delegation to
try to negotiate with the Com
munists, and his cohorts poured out
q series of statements and tele-
grams.
All evidently were designed either
to gain a settlement or-barring
optimistic possibility-to damn the
Communists with the public for
continuing the three-year war.
Shao Li-tze. former ambassador
TO Moscow, was named chairman
of the peace delegation. Members
are Gen. Chang Chih-chung, Gen.
Huang Shao-hsiung, Peng Chao-
hsien, and Chung Tien-hsing.
Chang is a cabinet minister and
commander of five northwes
provinces. He and Shao are long
time peace advocates. The others
are minor figures but none Is on
the Communists war criminals
list.
Accepts Terms as Talk Basis.
Ii, announcing their selection
after a typical Chinese tea party,
said they were to negotiate peace
"at a suitable place to be agreed
upon by both sides"
The acting president said he was
ready 10 accept the Communists
eight broadcast terms of January
ID as basis" for negotiation.
Since these terms amounted to an
ultimatum for unconditional sur
render, it was evident that the
government was not ready to ac-
cept them as they stood.
Ii said he was ready to with
draw from the government when
ever peace was achieved.
Chairman Shao issued statement
inviting the Communists to set the
time and place for a meeting. He
also addressed message to Marshal
Ii Chi-shen and Shen Chung -ju
urging their aid.
No relation of the acting president,
Marshal Ii, onetime right-hand man
to Chang, and Shen, head OF the
government-outlawed Democratic
League, are nom Communist but Bit
terly anti-government. Both went
from Hong Kong to Communist ter
ritory three weeks ago to try to form
a coalition of their own with the
Reds.
Martial Law Ordered Kept.
Acting President Ii issued prom
ise to abolish or suspend quickly
"an DEGREES interfering with the
peoples freedom and contrary to
the peoples democracy"
Gen. Tang En-po, commanding
the Marking Shanghai defense area,
evidently saw things differently. He
Immediately announced that martial
law would continue unchanged and
threatened punishment Of all
"rumor -mongers" and other dis
turbers of the peace.