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Distance running in Korea got a big boost back in 1936 when Kitei Son, listed as a Japanese, set an Olympic marathon record. After the war and Korea's liberation, he adopted the Korean version of his name, Kee Chung Sohn, and became a national hero. Since then, with Kee doing much of the coaching, South Korea has turned out some remarkably durable runners. In 1947, with passage money partly contributed by U.S. servicemen stationed there, Korea sent young Yun Bok Suh to the Boston marathon. He set a course record...
...best remaining Nationalist army on the mainland, some 200,000 troops under doughty General Pai Chung-hsi, who had screened Canton for six months, was retreating westward to the general's native province of Kwangsi. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek had chosen Formosa for his own last stand, though there were reports that he had at last agreed to part with some silver and gold from his war chest for Chungking's defense...
Reliable private reports said the Communists were advancing despite strong rear-guard actions by General Pai Chung-Hsi's Nationalists...
Last week, Chen Ming-jen defected to the Communists too. Another southward lunge brought the Communists within 215 miles of Canton, where weary Nationalist officials began packing again. Their next stop: Chungking, scene of their exile during most of the war with Japan. Nationalist General Pai Chung-hsi hastily regrouped what was left of his forces at Hengyang...
...south, meanwhile, Nationalist General Pai Chung-hsi continued his withdrawal down the Hankow-Canton railroad, finally set up field headquarters at Henyang, where the railroad branches out to Kweilin in Pai's home province of Kwangsi. To the east, units of one-eyed Red General Liu Po-cheng's armies moved into the towns of Nanping and Shahsien in Fukien province, putting Communist vanguards within 300 miles of the refugee Nationalist capital in Canton. In Canton, Garrison Commander Yeh Shao issued a proclamation declaring the city to be in a state of war, advised citizens who could...