NANKING, Jan. 21, 1949 (UP) - Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek headed for exile today, taking a leave of absence as president of Nationalist China to clear the way for negotiations with the Chinese Communists to end China's three-year civil war.

HONG KONG, Oct. 16, 1949 (UP) -- Communist shore batteries bombarded a British steamer off the southeast coastal port of Amoy, it was reported Sunday as the main Communist armies north of Hong Kong prepared to move down to the border of this British crown colony.

WASHINGTON, Nov.16, 1949 (UP) -- Secretary of State Dean Acheson Wednesday blasted Chinese Communists for arresting United States Consul General Angus Ward, and said the incident has killed any chance of early American recognition of the Red regime.

HONG KONG, Nov. 20, 1949 (UP)-A Chinese communist source here said Sunday that Angus Ward, imprisoned consul general in Mukden, may be charged with plotting against the Manchurian "People's Provincial government."

HONG KONG, Nov. 21, 1949 (UP) -- Gen. Pai Chung-hsi emerged Monday as China's new "strong man" and was reported to have asked Indo-China to help him build an anti-Communist core of resistance along the border between the two countries.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 22, 1949 (UP) -- The State department said Tuesday it has received Communist reports that American Consul General Angus Ward is being tried by a Chinese "people's court" at Mukden and that a verdict will be announced soon.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 22, 1949 (UP) -- The United States has asked Russia and 29 other nations to lodge a mass protest with the Chinese Communist government over the jailing in Mukden of American Consul Bernal Angus Ward, it was revealed Monday.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 23, 1949 (UP) -- Chinese Communists have liberated United States Consul General Angus Ward and four aides and ordered them to leave the country at once, the State Department disclosed Wednesday.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 26, 1949 (UP) -- American Consul General Angus Ward's top aide at Mukden has been arrested on a "fantastic" spying charge and is being held incommunicado by Chinese Communists, the State Department said Saturday.

HONG KONG, Nov. 28, 1949 (UP) -- The Communists Monday drove to within eight miles of Chungking, the grimy, fog-shrouded Nationalist capital. The city's doom was signaled when Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek fled to Chengtu, 175 miles to the northwest.