Word: chen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thanks for the inspirational messages of Msgr. Fulton J. Sheen and Dr. Chao Tse-chen [TIME, April...
Slowly but inexorably, the armies of Communist General Chen Yi bore down across the flatlands of the Yangtze delta. In the second week of the South China offensive the Reds' pace had slowed down somewhat, but they triumphantly reported eight Nationalist armies crushed and trapped between the Yangtze and the coast. Hangchow, last coastal railroad gateway to the south, was deserted and lay open to the conquerors. Red armies also bore down on Shanghai...
...opened up from the north shore seven hours before the deadline set by the ultimatum for unconditional surrender. At 11 p.m., an hour ahead of schedule, shock troops jammed onto river craft and struck across in a vast envelopment on both sides of Nanking. One field army under General Chen Keng took Tikang, 80 miles southwest and upriver from the Nationalist capital. Other forces under General Chen Yi poured across 35 and 65 miles east and downriver from Nanking, snatched the river port of Chinkiang and the river fort at Kiangyin, whose big guns were silent...
Songs After Dawn. Through the day, Communist agents in Nanking came out from underground, posted signs welcoming the Red army, and prepared the Communist takeover. Before dawn of the next day, 20,000 troops of General Chen Yi's third field army marched into the city through the northwest gate. Country boys from Manchuria stared in open wonder at Nanking's big modern government buildings, all of which were occupied in short order. University students gathered to sing patriotic songs in welcome...
Robert Lovett Ashenhurst '50 of Chicago and Lowell House; Geoffrey Doughlas Bust '50 of Cambridge and Eliot House; Francis Fenghstang Chen '50 of New York City and Eliot House; Giles Constable '50 of 23 Chaigie Street, Cambridge; Samuel Isaac Epstein '50 of Dorchester and Lowell House; Thomas Fulton '51 of Long Island City, New York; Frank Slagle Ham '50 of Washington and Lowell House; and Unrich Ernst Kruse '50 of Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Lowell House...