Word: changchun
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Countered Chneider: "Our presence is not only admitted and approved by both Russia and China, but ordered. I have been informed that a joint commission in Harbin is even now discussing the future of Fushun. Until they reach a decision, the Combine continues to belong to the Sino-Soviet Changchun Railroad. Surely we do not intend just to sit around and drink tea. Maybe it is a Chinese custom to drink tea in the office, but it is not a Soviet...
CHUNGKING-Communist forces, now 40,000 strong, have captured most of the Manchurian capital of Changchun and now are reducing remaining Nationalist units in the center of the city, the China Central News agency reported today...
Eight months after they had marched in, the Red Army prepared to march out of Changchun, Manchuria's capital. As usual, the Russians were careful to leave chaos behind. Some 2,000 airborne Chinese Government troops, aided by 5,000 local auxiliaries, were inside the city. Outside was a Chinese Communist siege army, 60,000 to 70,000 strong. Slogging up from the south to relieve their beleaguered comrades was the Government's crack, U.S.-trained First Army. At Kaiyuan, a rail stop 115 miles away, the 40,000 regulars broke through Communist lines in the first serious...
...invaded Soviet-occupied Manchuria. After months of Red tape and runarounds, 22 correspondents and photographers found it deceptively easy to push aside the iron curtain that had kept them out. With a hesitant Godspeed from the Chinese, they boarded northbound trains at Chinchow for sightseeing tours of Mukden, and Changchun, the capital...
They had set out under the auspices of the Chinese, but were quickly taken in hand by the Russians. One group was confined for 54 hours in Mukden and 53 hours in Changchun, for arriving without official sanction. At Changchun, calling on frosty Major General Fedor Karlov, they were curtly told to stay away from Red Army installations. At the end of the interview, Karlov told newsmen: "We have no machines to take you back to the hotel." At 10 below zero, they trudged the three miles back through the snow. Several noted that U.S. Lend-Lease trucks and cars...