Word: changchun
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wedge between Communist Yenan and the Reds' Manchurian rampart. Kalgan's capture was the climax and the symbol of six months of campaigning in which the Government army had been more successful than impartial observers had expected. In addition to several Red cities (notably Chengteh ana Changchun) they had cleared many miles of economically vital North China railroads...
...this strangely limited (but nonetheless dangerous) civil war, negotiations and fighting blended. Was the fall of Changchun, for instance, a battle or a deal? Chiang Kai-shek had demanded that this city, the Japanese-built capital of Manchuria, be handed over to his troops as part of a new truce agreement to replace the pact that the Communists broke. No one ever announced that the Reds had agreed. But suddenly last week Chiang's General Tu Liming led his troops 67 miles in four days up Manchuria's spine. As he stormed Changchun, the Reds withdrew limply...
...service here in keeping the mines open?" Cheng replied affirmatively. Zezukevich declaimed: "We technicians are truly international." Cheng remained passive. Zezukevich asked if the Russians should remain in Fushun or leave. Cheng replied: "Do as you please." Zezukevich inquired if Cheng thought the mines were part of the Changchun Railroad. Cheng said...
Even as Marshall settled down to a series of conferences, Communists and Nationalists fought fiercely to consolidate local positions in Manchuria before the General's pacifying personal prestige could still their guns. A 40,000-man Chinese Communist army blasted the small Nationalist garrison out of Changchun, Manchuria's capital, and halted a relief column near Szepingkai, 70 miles away. Near Nationalist-held Mukden, the Communist-led United Democratic Army ambushed Lieut. General Chao Kung-wu's 25th Division, turned it back from the coal-and-bauxite-rich city of Penki (Penhsihu) new Communist provisional capital...
...Harbin would fall to the Chinese Communists when the Russians pull out this week. For the moment, at least, the Nationalists were confined to the western and northern coastal area of the Liaotung Gulf, save only for the blunted column reaching from Mukden along the Dairen-Harbin railroad toward Changchun. The Communists-with 300,000 troops already in Manchuria-were siphoning in more, by land from the northwest, by sea from Shantung Peninsula to the Liaoning province port of Antung. The Nationalists had two more armies en route, five already in the field...