Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995), Saturday 14 June 1947, page 1


CHINESE TROOPS RECAPTURE PÈiTASHAN

NANKING, Friday.

Government, forces, fighting the ' Outer Mongolian invasion of Sinkiang Province, have re-captured Peitashan, 50 miles from the Outer Mongolian bor

der.'

Reporting this, the Government's Central Newsagency says that fighting is continuing.

Other dispatches report that the invaders have been repulsed 50 miles inside the Mongolian border but aircraft, with Soviet markings,' continue to bomb Chinese positions at Peitashan. " -

China's Legislative Yuan yesterday demanded a firmer policy towards Russia as a result of the Mongolian invasion.

Some sources view the Mongolian invasion as a manifestation that China is in danger of losing Sinkiang Province under Soviet-stimulated demands for its autonomy.

Stalemate in China

NEW YORK, Friday.

Government and Communist troops' in China have battled each other and to a temporary stalemate on the Central Shantung front, 100 miles! north of Hsuchow. ' 1

The "New York Times" correspondent

in Hsuchow (Tillman Dur din) says that the Nationalist offensive, aimed at clearing the Communists from the huge slab of ' territory east of the Hsuchow-Tsinan railway and south of the AsianTsingtao railway, has halted short of

its objective.

A According to Durdin, the Communist destruction of the crack Government 74th Division and the capture of much of its American equipment, east of Meng in last month, is one of the big reasons for

the cessation of the Government

drive. The

long vista of a continued struggle is affecting Nationalist troops' morale and the tendency to surrender is becoming increasingly, noticeable, he adds. I