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Minister of Communications Yu Fei Peng…said the Communists are forcing the peasants living in villages near the railway lines to destroy the railways, one man must remove one sleeper every ten men must remove one railway. The punishment for disobedience is massacre of whole families.

 

YT: Chungking denies use of poison gas against Communists

 

China (Telegraph services): U.P. dispatches in English for all stations. 14.05., 3.11.45.

 

Chungking: Minister of Information K.C. Wu laughed at the Communist charge of using poison gas in Shansi, he said: “Absolutely impossible. The Government has not got any poison gas.”

 

He denied the Government was utilising Japs to fight the Communists.

 

Government proposals to Communists

 

K. C. Wu said during the talks of the past two days the government had proposed:

 

1) Both sides should order their troops to stay where they are.

2) Withdraw 10 KMS. Railways (few words inaudible).

 

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Wu denies KMT plane dive-bombed

 

A Communist release charged a KMT plane with dive-bombing a village near the Communist held town of Touhsien on the Tientsin-Pukow railway in Shantung on 30^th October, killing four and wounding eight. The Minister of Information K.C. Wu said nothing of that sort is true.

 

The Communist organ, the New China Daily, published that the central KMT headquarters in Chungking were printing millions of copies of a “Bandit suppression handbook” represented as a definite sign that the government is commencing a formal civil war. K.C. Wu said: “Ridiculous.” He said that central KMT demanded the “New China Daily” to print a correction.

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