Word: cheng
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mukden faced immediate tactical decisions. Nationalist generals gathered for a defense conference with sick Manchuria Commander Chen Cheng (stomach ulcers). To discourage looting by the hungry and desperate among Mukden's half million inhabitants, authorities installed a nightly twelve-hour curfew...
...Communists had even cracked south into Central China, after giving the bonfire treatment to long stretches of the vital Lunghai railway. One-eyed Communist General Liu Po-cheng and some 100,000 men were snug in the rugged Tapieh hills, just northeast of Hankow-a constant menace to the Yangtze valley...
...Manchuria, Chiang Kai-shek's trusted Chief of Staff Chen Cheng was cleaning house among grafting politicos and generals ; he had had at least two generals shot, some 30 more jailed...
Last week, while Nationalist forces slogged on doggedly toward the seaport of Chefoo, Liu Po-cheng broke loose...
...Communist guerrillas on their deepest raid into Nationalist territory this year, sweeping 300 miles in three weeks. U.S. headlines said that China's capital itself was threatened last week. Nationalist river craft steamed up the Yangtze to see if Liu Po-cheng would attempt a crossing; night guards carefully checked all vehicles entering Nanking. But the city itself was undisturbed, and the city gates were still open...