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...knew that President Li had been unable to get another candidate for the post, so Yen was confirmed. The Yuan members were more interested in a counter on one side of the meeting room above which was a sign: "Legislators planning to leave for Formosa must register here...
Last week also brought news to Canton of the fall of Tsingtao, last Nationalist pocket in North China. South of the river Communist armies advanced without opposition. The Formosa registration counter did a brisk business...
...most they could hope to delay and fall back, into the vast reaches of south China and onto the island of Formosa for a test stand. But barring a miracle, they had no prospect of stopping the Red tide...
Just before his retirement to his native village of Fenghua last January, President Chiang Kai-shek thoughtfully moved some $300 million of Nationalist gold, silver and foreign exchange from Nanking and Shanghai to safer vaults in Formosa and South China. There it was put under tight control of generals and officials loyal to Chiang. If the Communists toppled the peace-seeking government of Acting President Li Tsung-jen and tried to occupy all of China, the gold and silver would serve Chiang's still-faithful followers as a nest egg for further resistance against the Reds...
Despite shortages, the 1948 food production of the home islands was slightly above the 1931-40 annual average. But the population has grown still faster so there was less food for each mouth. Before 1937 Japan grew 80% of its own food. Sugar from Formosa and soybeans from Manchuria made it almost completely self-sufficient within its empire. With only the home islands, it can provide 70% of its prewar level of 2,160 calories a day. The growing population will make it very hard to push self-sufficiency in food above...