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A fortnight after China's Nationalists and Communists had parted in incomplete agreement (TIME, Oct. 22), a Communist spokesman in Chungking said:
In North China, where the great stake was the railway system, a solution was proposed by Chungking's Information Minister K. C. Wu: 1) the Communists should withdraw from the railways; 2 ) the Central Government would accept their local administration beyond the right of way, pending a final political...
In Outer Mongolia, said Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek at a Chungking press conference, a plebiscite was under way. It was being conducted under the terms of the Sino-Russian treaty (TIME, Sept. 3), which gave Outer Mongolia's one million Soviet-oriented, cattle-raising tribesmen the right to vote...
Chungking had several observers at the polls. But long before the results were in, the Central Government wrote off its claim to nominal sovereignty. Generalissimo Chiang's regime prepared to establish diplomatic relations with Premier Marshal Choibalsan's "independent," Sovietized Republic of Outer Mongolia. This week Moscow reported...
Chungking's Foreign Minister, Dr. Wang Shih-chieh, announced that the Red Army was keeping Stalin's treaty promise and withdrawing from Manchuria. The evacuation might be completed by November's end; a trickle of Central Government officials was already moving in.