893.00/10–2748: Telegram
The Consul General at Peiping (Clubb) to the Secretary of State
[Received October 27—5:12 a. m.]
395. Following is translation of Communist Hsin Hua radio broadcast of 25th:
“(North China front dispatch) People’s Liberation Army under command of Generals Yang Teh-chih, Lo Jui-ching, Yang Cheng-wu, Li Ching-chuan has gained control of Peiping-Suiyuan railway. During past month since starting in September of its autumnal campaign which has as its aim annihilation of bandit forces under Fu Tso-yi, (Communist) Army annihilated and captured more than 10,000 of Fu’s men, destroyed at several points Peiping–Kalgan stretch of Peiping–Suiyuan railway, and captured Kuyuan and Chungli in north Chahar, Cholu in south Chahar, Tsining, Fengchen, Hsingho and Taolin in east Suiyuan, Liangcheng, Holin, Chingshuiho and [Page 522] Toketo in south Suiyuan and Wuchuan, Saratsi and Paotow in west Suiyuan. With sole exception of two enemy strongholds of Tatung and Kweisui, the whole (of railway) from Kalgan to Paotow has been subjected to control of Liberation Army. Enemy garrison forces at Paotow, which had earlier evacuated Yulin, fled westwards for fear of being wiped out. They are being hotly pursued by Liberation Army. Paotow is important commercial town whose occupation will prove of great significance toward complete liberation of Suiyuan. Main force of Fu Tso-yi is being massed along Peiping–Kalgan railway. At present Fu is daily conferring with bandit Chiang (Kai-shek), now in Peiping, with view to finding ways and means to relieve critical situation, though this will be of little avail.”
Sent Department; repeated Nanking 591, Tientsin and Mukden.