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CHUNGKING LIKELY
TO FALL SOON
Nationalist Leaders
Ready To Leave
Australian Associated Press
HONGKONG, Nov. 28.
Chinese Comunist troops are within eight
miles of Chungking, the Nationalist capital,
and the city is expected to fall within 24
hours.
Some r??ports ?ay tkat Marshal Chiang Kai-shek has'
already left (liiingking l?y air, Imt other floorers
rlaim that he was still in the city toniptit with a
handful of loading officials.
Aircraft passenwrs ar
riving frmn <'lnm<rkin<r this
afternoon said Hip <"'<>in
uiimists were ?-X|><H-t?-<l to
omipy (lie city lonijrlit or
tomorrow morning.
The travellers said when
their plane left Chungking seve
ral members of the Nationalist
Cabinet were at the airport
waiting to leave. Their destina
tion was not revealed, but it was
thought likely to be Hongkong.
Communist spearheads were
approaching Chungking from
the south, they said. They had
bypassed ctukiang. 39 nines
from Chungking on the
Kweiyang-Chungking highway
and had readied Nanwenchien,
famous hot springs resort.
The main Communist force.
had deflected north-vest mi
order to cut the Chungking-1
Cbengtu highway and |j?eventj
troops and officials escaping'
from the capital. ?
Many Trying To
Escape
The trawlers sakl
Cliun^kin;? was i,, a stati
of <-<>nfusion, with many
pecpie seeking to escape.
Earlier Chinese dispatcher
said that other Communist
forces advancing westward from
Kweiyang bad reached a point
10 miles south of Pieh^n. at:
the junction of the Kweiyang-:
Kunming and Chengtu-Kun
ming highways
Toe capture of Fichien wouid ;
cut the oolf remainiiig |?n^:
route connfcting tbe Natioiu]
ists in Saecnuan with tbose mi
South China. :
Tlie cnly escape route forj
troops in Ssernuan would then;
be into the remote province of
SinkJang. '
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