Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 December 1948 — Page 21

FRIDAY, DEC. 10, 1948

Eyewitness—

Observer Sees Chiang! Force Pushing Through

To Red-Tr

Nationalists Jrap With American Rifles

Follow Light Tanks Inte Burning Villages GERALD NOZICK, United P HUORBINMIAG WiLLe and ORTHNBSTERY "Fie FRONT, Dec. 10-~Chinese Nationalist ‘troops carrying Am rifles supported by Russian-made light tanks swept’ i he Burning villages to felieve a Communist orce

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ola WB about. join with the encireléd troops of Gen. Huang Wei, surrounded in| a -five-mile area some 30 miles! northwest of this village. In Nanking, the National ‘Defenge Ministry announced after Mr. Nogzick’s front dispatch was filed that Li's. adv pa had established contact with the left wing . of Huang's twelfth army group, but sald the two main forces had not yet actually linked up. I walked the last mile into this! village just behind Li's advancing troops, as rifles cracked and an] occasional Communist mortar:|

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" HONOLULU, Dec, 10 (UP)— Col. Thomas.

United State Air “Force officer directly responsible for Hawail's air ‘defense, admitted today that as many as 12 unidentified planes could enter the Hawalian area

urn, ports

unchallenged under peacetime conditions,

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its prbbebob B-36 bombers flew over Hawall on the seventh annl-

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ee Communist “slogan = Tae | painted.

“We Tespgct the interests. of the {people,” it.says. ar today, I flew in a Nationa observation pline, an American Piper, over the area betweén the Fei and Huai rivers in which Huang’ 8 30,000 men are]

trolsiencireled.

Plas Drop Food They are pressed into an area! five miles in diameter. We saw the troops lying in shallow weaving octopus-like| {through the -fieilds. They appar«| ently were not under any strong lattack, Chinese transport planes few |

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vérsary of Pearl Harbor and re-/dummy bombs in the seas off Hahere indicated that Hawai-/wall, flew “quite ‘a way"“up and fan military authorities bad not/down the Hawalian chain and detected it. completed its non-stop 8000-mile Col. Blackburn said the island's (flight back to Carswell Alr Base, defense forces “wouldn't chal-{Ft, Worth, lenge any aircraft in peacetime”| Residents of the islands, who unless alerted by th State De: still have vivid recollections of xn hg or th) ¢ ese “day. of infamy % 480, indicated imme concern over the revelation Hat the giant Bomber entered the islands t deteotion.

LE 9 g announcement “fin A orth said the plane, capable 4 hauling an atom Domb tho

haven't learned a thing in seven years,” Territorial Governor In| gram M. Stainback commented. He said his remark was not to be taken as official criticism: Capt. Peyton Harrison, U, 8. Navy reserve, the governor's aide, sald: “The Komandorskies (Russian islands in the Bering Sea) are closer to Hawall than Ft. Worth.” Col. . Blackburn, commander of

Pearl Harbor. Recalled By Bomber's Undefected Flight Over Hawaii

don't know if we saw the B-38 or not and we wouldn't any aircraft in peacetime.” He said the islands’ present defense set-up contemplates a ‘nos: scale aerial attack, but is not pre-| pared for an attack by a single; bomber, “Any single aircraft could come | into the islandse without being| challenged.” -he-sald. “We don't check radar slips against flight

of miles, gd ett ge load ofk “It justy to ;show they|

the 8}st fighter wing, sald “we

plans unless there's a large flight.

shell fell in the smoking ruins. lover at intervals, dropping bags The American sit-by-six truck injof rice and other food, and para-|

which I had ridden from Pengpu,|chuting ammunition in boxes into | 8.DIAMOND

20 miles to the southeast, had stopped well outside the village because of the Red mortar fire. Only Token Resistance But a column of 13 Nationalist tanks rolled through the single main street of the as watched. They were light tanks of Russian make, dating back to

~pre-World War II days. Appar-i

ently they had been taken by the Nationalists in Manchuria. Li's well-equipped troops, most of whom carried American rifles and plentiful supplies of ammu- " nition, pushed forward ‘briskly. Communist skirmishers were falling back with only token resistance. In a field at the edge of the village I saw a number of steel helmets scattered on the ground. I jumped over alittle stream, and --was-startled to see-a-fist.aticking. from the muddy water. Closer inspection showed the body of a Communist soldier lying in the

water, A “ow wounded - Nationalists par me walking toward the rear. But there was no considerable number of casualties -on either side. The Communists appeared to be fighting only a delaying action.

As 1 e this, villagers al-

ready are returning to their burned and shattered homes. The rifle and mortar fire still can be heard faintly as the advancing Nationalists move on to the northwest, but the villagers pay no attention to it,

Soe rok wha ‘

- PS . home: She does “eyes are glazed and empty. She seems not to know what she is seeking in the ruins. On. the wall of another house] which, ‘although damaged by mortar-shell, is still standing,

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an area marked with red, white and yellow cloth stripes. Flying - back toward Pengpu, | we saw Nationalist units advanc-| ing on a front of approximately | 20 miles, in a three-pronged drive |

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a small rail town about 10 miles | north of Pengpu. Li's 39th army is on the left | flink, his 9th army ‘in the cen-| ter, and his 54th army on the | right. All appeared to be mov-| ing rapidly forward. We saw occasional armored cars and a few light tanks. - But for the! most part it was an infantry] movement, We saw smoke rising from many villages.’

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