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...Washington, the State Department heard that a messenger from Canton had been sent to Europe, with a suitcase full of back pay for Chinese diplomats...
With scarcely more than a quiet sigh, Canton last week passed under Communist rule. There was no resistance in the city that had given refuge to China's dying Nationalist government...
...best remaining Nationalist army on the mainland, some 200,000 troops under doughty General Pai Chung-hsi, who had screened Canton for six months, was retreating westward to the general's native province of Kwangsi. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek had chosen Formosa for his own last stand, though there were reports that he had at last agreed to part with some silver and gold from his war chest for Chungking's defense...
...week cut off news from Red China to U.S. and other Western papers. In Shanghai, his Alien Affairs Bureau ordered all correspondents, except those representing publications in countries which had recognized the new regime (i.e., Russia, its satellites and Yugoslavia), to stop filing cables. That left Hong Kong and Canton as the only major news centers in China still open to U.S. newsmen. Protested the U.S. State Department: "A crude effort on the part of the Chinese Communists to force recognition...
...Nationalist military news agency said three armies (possibly 60,000 men) were heading north from Canton to strengthen the defense belt around the provisional capital...