Evening star. [volume], September 12, 1947, Page B-7, Image 36

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Chinese Planes Pound
Communist Positions
In Shantung Province
fcy th* Associated Press
NANKING, Sept. 12.—Govern
ment warplanes, their targets illum
inated by aerial flares, pounded
Chinese Communist positions along
the Shantung peninsula in savage
night attacks, official sources said
today.
Disquieting reports reached Nan
king of Communist infiltration be
hind government lines in other sec
tions of the Shantung civil war
battleground.
Field dispatches told of air units
spearheading sweeps agaiilst the
Communist ninth column—only
regular forces remaining in East
Shantung—as Gen. Wang Yao-wu's
ground forces edged closer to Lai-!
yang on the road to Chefoo.
Communist Ships Attacked.
The official Central News Agency
said warplanes attacked a Commu
nist fleet of 100 wooden ships at sea 1
off Chikow, 40 miles south of Tang
ku, sinking more than 20. The same
report said an air squadron on re
connaissance caught a Communist
cavalry force in open country and
inflicted heavy casualties by strafing.
An informed source said “con
flicting orders" issued from Nanking
and from the field permitted Com
munist forces to trap and batter the
government's reorganized 9th divi
sion after a surprise crossing of the
Yellow River in West Shantung,
official quarters confirmed loss of
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river.
Intensified Communist activity
also was reported in Central Hopei
province, where at least two Com
munist brigades under Nie Yung-ts
in operating between Paoting and
Tientsin.
Chinese Communists Attack
Road Center Near Peiping
PEIPING, Sept. 12 (&).—Chinese
Communists in a thrust from the
south crossed the Taching (Big
Clean River three days ago and now
are attacking Hsiunghsien, highway
renter 65 miles south of Peiping,
progovernment dispatches reported
today.
The reports declared the Nation
alist defenders have repelled de
termined Communist attempts to
take the town, fall of which would
be a blow to the government's mil
itary position in the area between
Peiping and Hankow' and the Tien
tsin-Pukow railway line.
Deeper Military Cuts
Announced in Britain
By the Associated Press
LONDON, Sept. 12—Sir Staffqrd
Cripps, president of the Board of
Trade, announced today new' cuts
in Britain's armed forces and a
slash in permitted capital invest
ments as crisis measures to help
stave off economic collapse.
The Labor Minister urged an im
mediate one-third increase in ex
ports, and said capital investments
would have to be cut drastically to
make the increase possible. He said
the Labor government would use
compulsion, if necessary, with all
industry and labor to achieve pro
duction targets.
"Though we might be able to get
further temporary assistance from
the United States of America under
the Marshall Plan or some other
way, we cannot count upon this,"
Sir Stafford said in an address before
2.000 industrialists and unionists.
"We do not wish or intend to be
tied by economic strings to the
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Sir Staffprd, warning Britons that
even more austerity was in store for
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The minister said “it may well
prove necessary to cut dowm capital
investments in this country by
£200,000,000 ($800,000,000) a year.”
He did not, however, commit the
government to a specific figure.
Navy Man Says Japs Gave
Gascoigne'Terrific Beating'
By the Associated Press
SAN DIEGO, Calif., Sept. 12.—
Chief Commissary Steward Robert
Bickley, Boerne, Tex., testified yes
terday at the Navy court martial
of Lt. < j. g.) Richard F. Gascoigne
that he witnessed a “terrific beating
and strangulation” the defendant
underwent aboard a Japanese prison
ship.
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Testimony of Oliver Ard. defense
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Mr. Ard told the court that if
Gascoigne was to be tried for the
charges at hand "then every man
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