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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last year, after capturing the Red capi tal of Yenan, Hu must have felt that his job was done. He got married. But last March Hu had fresh cause to thump and howl : wily Communist General Peng Teh-huai had sprung an ambush at Ichuan, killed and captured 20,000 of Hu's best troops (TIME, March 22). Then Peng cut below Yenan, Stonewall Jackson fashion, and, in a forced march of 100 miles, launched his 60,000 troops into the broad South Shensi valleys. He was driving to ward the lush granary of Szechuan Prov ince - never...
...General Hu had to abandon Yenan to save his northern flank. Then he raced westward to hold the Szechuan passes. An urgent call to roly-poly Governor Ma Hung-kwei of Ninghsia Province brought him two divisions of tough Moslem caval ry. In one of the Nationalists' few well-executed maneuvers, the Reds were boxed by superior force and fire power near Pao-chi, a river crossing on the way to Szechuan...
...Communist radio was terse : "After accomplishing disruption of the enemy and annihilating their defending troops, the People's Army withdrew on their own initiative from Paochi . . ." But to the Red initiative was added that of General Hu. In a series of running battles that cost Peng 20,000 men, Hu drove him off into the high, rugged country of east Kansu...
...other fronts, however, the sagging Nationalists gave ground. Shantung was almost entirely in Communist hands. Along the strategic corridor from North China toward Manchuria the Communists seemed ready for new offensives. For General Hu, as for all of Nationalist China, the external and internal pressures were mounting...
...Republic of All Korea. Then, last week, Russia announced that "necessary arrangements" had been made to pull its troops out of Korea entirely "in order to make American troops withdraw from Korea simultaneously." The Russian-controlled North Korea radio broadcast an election-eve message to U.S. Zone Commander Lieut. General John R. Hodge: "You had better get out of Korea with your clothes packed . . . Why do you make such a valuable effort at the expense of your nervous system...