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Early this week Sun Fo finally succeeded in forming a cabinet. It contained some known to favor appeasing the Communists, but it also contained thoroughly anti-Communist Chen Li-fu. Observers recalled, however, that Chen has long opposed the Gimo's campaign to wipe out Communism in North China. Chen wanted to organize a strong anti-Communist free China south of the Yangtze...
...General Fu Tso-yi, Nationalist commander in the north, shattered the city's traditional calm. For a fortnight he had been pulling his troops back from one outlying position after another. His "North China Corridor" had been chopped up into three closets-Kalgan, Peiping, Tientsin. Everything looked ready for a surrender...
...Then Fu announced that he would defend Peiping to the death. He moved his headquarters, which had been four miles out of town, into the heart of the city, impressed thousands of coolies into digging trenches and throwing up street barricades. A hundred thousand soldiers swirled through the gates, went from house to house commandeering billets...
Communist General Lin Piao followed hard on Fu's heels, drew a siege ring around the city. By week's end both airfields outside the city walls were in Communist hands. Electricity and water lines were cut. Food prices doubled and tripled; fresh vegetables and meat almost disappeared from the markets...
Just before his visit to Suchow battlefield, TIME'S Robert Doyle had a look at North China. There Nationalist General Fu Tso-yi, with Reds north, east and south of him, was pulling back from advance positions, preparing for a last-ditch defense of Peiping and Tientsin. Doyle's report...