| Show Chinese Reds' Reds Big Guns Gulis Shake Falling Mukden By fly JOHN RODERICK K O China F Feb b 23 UP up P Chinese communist troops wheeled their big big- guns clo close e enough to shake hungry beleaguered Mukden Monday in their steady advance o on the e heart of Manchuria Military reports and and- eyewitness accounts account showed the desperate plight o of the big fg industrial city Government sources in reported another grave ave setback the loss lo of 45 miles north of I Mukden I Its fall tightened the communist blockade of Mukden and opened the w way y for communist assaults Assaul from the north The Rev N. N O. O Dahlsten Berrien Berrien Ber- Ber rien Springs just arrived from Mukden said whole families there ther were c committing suicide for fol Jack lack of food old Month-old children were were being ted fed millet a millet a rough Manchurian c cereal ceAL re l. l Cl City y Shakes The The Seventh Day Adventist misI mis- mis I nary 8 said aid id Mukden was shaking to the bombardment of f big guns He said 1 the thc communists communIst evidently will try to capt capture caure re ap an and l hold ld Mukden r I Other reports told of communist om attacks on a government air base bas o only ly a mile mil and half a-half from Mukden Muk Muk- den The Chinese air force halted all its lu flights to Mukden The Theu UI u state S.-state department nt advised all if dependents of Its consular p person person- nel iel t to leave th there r at t Fighting was WL as reported Jn- Jn l- l the suburbs suburb of pf Penk a II maj r source of Mukden's coal i supply center is isA 35 tn miles mile u of Mukden The A A communists already had cut the raIl line between nth the two points 4 V tov on Coal CoalT Town j f Small Communist movements In Inthe f the direction of Fushun great coal coalt t wn 20 of Mukden k also were r mentioned in nt I dispatches i a heS f.- f. r Reporting e the loss of the g government termed it B. B a strategic withdrawal w t L G Government if forces Z took up new w positions to the th south buth I t i The t town wn had b beeR been un under r s siege g ge off and nd on on for five m months months' a key highway city lt It f guarded the western wes flanks of the K trink line rail towns of I t and 40 and 55 5 mites miles north iT of t J p me e heard that tha 1 c communist troops were moving toW port of from newly won steel producing producing ing lag cent center r National dispatches estimated nine divisions were Inv in involved in- in v Chinese correspondents predicted the communists would try to s t rI k e simultaneously against gaIns F Fushun huD and nd d Y r. r Chiang's Moves lo Th The Th Sa same le sources reported thecO the cO continued 1 cd arrival l of bf government troops and t supplies at Other por the government n Intended t send two m more e. e io Ion j ip Manchuria a from Shang Shang- Ja J a. a t tJ condi- condi Mukden said there w was no noway way waYt to escape except by airplane S ere bar ibar persons persons- seeking to leave Dr Dahlsten said coal was not for sale salt i In Mukden any longer r. r All commodities were almost out of re reach cb Flour for instance costs 18 18 f for i a an eight pound po n bag bagIn In Infrequent Infrequent In In- frequent nt food shipments n fn into the St are made under heavy eavy guard TiC To oz or or three ree policemen are stationed stationed sta- sta at each Mukden street I |
