Word: chinwangtao
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Communist guerrillas had cut the rail road from the great Kailan coal mines to the port of Chinwangtao. For nine days none of the Kailan coal, which China desperately needs, had moved. U.S. Major General Dewitt Peck, commander of the ist Marine Division, tried the route to Chinwangtao. For two days Communist guerrillas sporadically attacked his train. Near Lwanhsien village, his train was stalled by Communist small-arms fire. General Peck ordered the marines to fire back, while he sat smoking his pipe and cursing. Then he called for a Piper Cub to finish the trip. His superior, Major...
...Communist forces along the Great Wall were part of the famed Eighth Route Army. After taking over the ancient crossroads city of Kalgan, some 215 miles inland from Chinwangtao, and making it the capital of a new border government, the Eighth turned its energies to Manchuria. A Communist spokesman blandly explained that the Russians, observing the letter of their treaty obligations in Manchuria, had forbidden the Eighth to enter -as an army. But the Russians had welcomed Communist "civilians." Said the spokesman: "There is a possibility that these civilians armed the people." In any event, strong Communist forces were grouped...
...delayed, galloping inflation would be harder to check, industrial reconstruction would lag. Above all, a bleak, fuelless winter would lie ahead. For North China's railways tap the nation's great coal mines. Only one of these-the Kailan fields, lying on the line between Tientsin and Chinwangtao -was open last week. U.S. planes and Central Government guards were on the alert to bar any Communist attempt to block Kailan shipments...
...Communist Eighth Route Army held a solitary port, Chefoo. But a strong U.S. naval force cruised offshore. At strategic Tientsin and Tsingtao, U.S. marines landed and nonchalantly took over. Later they would hand the cities to the Nationalist Government. Other Marine contingents had raised their standards in Peiping and Chinwangtao...
...Tokyo Stock Exchange was said to have tumbled sharply after U.S. planes bombed Chinese coalfields near the port of Chinwangtao (see p. 31). From these fields Japan gets its best coking coal for steel manufacturing. The falling market may have reflected serious damage to the pumping system, which is necessary to keep the mines dry and workable...