Chinese Reds Justify Sniping at Americans
New York Times: Monday, November 19, 1945
By the United Press
TIENTSIN, China, Monday, Nov. 19 –A Communist spokesman said today that Red troops would continue to disrupt military communications lines in North China and that clashes with American patrols were “regrettable and unavoidable.”
In an “unofficial interview,” the spokesman said that the attacks would continue against vital lines in the undeclared war zone as long as they were used to transport troops and supplies of the Chinese government.
He termed the “firing incident” involving Maj. Gen. Dewitt Peck, commander of the First United States Marine Division, regrettable, but said that as long as American troops continued to transport Government troops, such incidents could not be avoided.
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