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Ailing General Chen Cheng was savagely criticized for his failure while commander in chief in the northeast. Screams rose for his execution. "We must restore morale with a man's head . . ." Many pleaded for the arming of village militia-why did not the government trust the people? A Kirin man recited a bitter song sung by "abused, ill-equipped local forces." The song...
Last week that picture was dark and doubtful. Along the east-west Lunghai Railway the government suffered its great est loss. Twenty thousand Communists under General Cheng Keng fought their way for the second time into Loyang, a major Nationalist bastion in Honan...
...Lake Success, N.Y. appeared scholarly Kung Teh-cheng, 28, for a look at U.N. headquarters. He proved to be the great-great-(to the 77th generation )grandson of Confucius, in the U.S. for conversations with U.S. scholars. To the press, Kung said of U.N.: his ancestor would have okayed the general idea...
Still another Communist offensive, directed by General Liu Po-cheng, the "one-eyed dragon," was taking shape in the vital Yangtze Valley. Nationalist troops moved in & out of Hankow daily; the city's mayor, recalling how the Japanese took Hankow by a surprise attack from the rear in 1937, said hopefully: "I think there is no way for the Communists to come into Hankow." It was not even certain that the Communists would...
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...