Show Chinese Reds Seize Airport May 21 CUP UP UP Chi Chinese nese communists captured the Changchun airport Wednesday and then concentrated their strategy on cutting the vital railway lines leading to the Important national natIonal- held 1st-held city A furious seesaw battle for control control control con con- of ot the lines raged in at least three places The communist threat seriously endangered the nationalist nationalist na na- na- na hold on the city since the railways are the main maln arteries through which the nationalists send supplies and troops to Manchuria Trains were running northeast from P iping for a distance of oC only 2 20 miles and no immediate I II I resumption o of full service was In sight sigh t. t At com come communist communist troops which crossed the river cut the railroad a afew afew few tew miles north of the city The Theline Theline line was cut at 35 miles south and at nearly miles mUes south Government troops however claimed recapture o of Nationalist defenders of Changchun Changchun Changchun Chang Chang- chun were reinforcing buildings and intersections for street fight- fight Ing ng An night all curfew curlew keeping unauthorized civilians of off the streets was enforced |