'Though deploring the hostilities between the new Fourth Army other Government troops, Mr. Chou! En-lai, Communist leader, igned' article appearing in the "Hsin Hug Ji Pao" yesterday in dicted that the Communists are} still anxious jointly to resist the, Japanese, Some observers believe that the inetease of Anglo-Ameri~ can aid has encouraged the Kuomin-fang which ax eliminated Commun. ist"influence in Central China since they ave no longer solely dependent) upon Russian military supplies.
However, a foreign specialist in Russian affairs who recently arrived in China believes that any event or incident would not affect Russian} aid to China sine the Russian na~ Uional policy at present is primarily designed to keep Japan bogged down in China without interfering with] China's internal political questions.
Mr. Chou En-lal declared in his! article that he would do his utmost to prevent further friction between the two parties.
With a tightening of the ring against Chinese Communist forces in Shantung, northern Kiangsu, 100,000 Chungking troops began moving eastward from Liyang area in wes Honan " province early in January, information from Chungking reaching usually well-informed Chinese banking circles revealed.—Domel.
'A mipreonoateaL station which will broadcast regular reports on weather conditions, 1s now in process of construction and nearing completion Chungking, says a Chungking message to the "Cheng Mien Pa Nanking, Jon. 18."
'A strange situation in' which the Sepanese and allied Nanking troops on the one hang, and Chungking forces fon the other, are effectively "eooperattug" against Communist guerillas in areas southeast of Nanking on. the southern bank of the Yangtze River, was revealed yesterday in the review communique of the past week's opera-tons issued by the Press Section of {he Japanese Expeditionary Forces to China, With Chinese Communists driven from the Suancheng area in southeast fern Anhwei Province by Chungking troops under General Hu Chu-tung, the Reds are attempting to filter into Japanese occupied sectors in the vie nity of Huyuan and Tangan_alon; the Yangtze.
Seven Japanese units, said the communique, launched operations January 14 against the Reds.
This unprecedented situation in which Chungking and Japanese troops sre forming a movement directo? against Communists which is favourable to the Japanese, further develop-fed on January 15 when troops of the Nanking. government joined in the oltack against the Reds under Mr. Wang Ching-wel's banner of "Peace, /Anti-Communism and National Recon General Koo Tsu-tung. command ing the Chungking Third War Zone, began operations against the Communists early in January in order 10 enforce orders issued by the Chung~ king Government to the Communist New Fourth Army and other Chinese Red military formations to evacuate areas south of the Yangtze, to dis tricts north of the Yellow River, which are dominated by the Japanese, This Chungking pressure forced the Communists to cross the Yangtze from the south to the north in the vicinity of Tikangehen, halfway between Wuhu and Anking on January 10, according to the communique.
Meanwhile, the Japanese Army air force on January 10 forestalled an attempt made by Chungking forces to restore the aerodrome at Lishul. in jsouhern Chekiang Province by raiding the airnetd.
Further air attacks reduced Chinese military bases north of Tsingyun along the banks of the North River Kwangtung Province, said the report.
Bulk of the 15,000 Red troops of the Eighth Army in Shansi province was It a crushing blow by Japanese forces, revealed the communique, adding that mopping up operations against these remnants are proceeding satisfactorily.
In the areas west of Nanchang, ital of Kiangsi Province, six apanese detachments Inst Thursday outed remnants of the Goth Division under the command of General Lo Chorying, in the vicinity of Hsintsunchu and Kwangfuehu, said the report, Ninety Die as Junks Are Bombed'
Shanghai, Jan. 15.
Approximately 90 persons lost their lives on January 6 when three or four junks in which they were travelling from Halyen, on the northern bank of the Yangtze in Kiangsu, to north Chekiang were bombed and sunk by Japanese planes, according to a report published by leading Chinese dailies here yesterday. Philanthrople bodies in Shanghai are asking for help for the relatives of those who have been killed. Most of the unfortunate travellers are said to be natives of Ningpo or' Shaoshing. 7 IL is stated that for the past few months since the Japanese have blockaded the Chekiang coast, Halyen. has been the pivot of passenger trame and cargo transportation between Shanghai and Ningpo, " Shanghai merchants first go to Haiyen by land and then by junks, they proceed to north Chekiang by way of Hangchow For the past few months this now! route to Chekiang has been safe for travellers, but it is alleged that bombings' by Japanese planes early this month were carried out without previous warnings. The junk ferry service has now been suspended.
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