Word: haikow
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...held off. Every day the small Nationalist air force (30 B-25s, P-51s and Mosquitoes) roars from the blacktopped airstrip at Haikow across Hainan Strait to the mainland. With field glasses from the roof of Haikow's Presbyterian Hospital, their bombs can be seen exploding on Luichow Peninsula where the Reds have been massing. The flyers also drop leaflets that urge Luichow fishermen, whose boats the Reds must commandeer, to sail away and avoid destruction rather than become "running dogs of Soviet Russia...
Rifles & Rice. Two months ago the tattered remnant of a beaten Nationalist army started pouring into Hainan from South China. Hungry soldiers roamed Haikow's crooked, dirty streets and sold their rifles for rice. The Little Tiger struggled for discipline. Demoralized troops were moved out of the towns into the countryside, paid in silver dollars (for a change), reorganized and re-equipped. Hsueh now has 160,000 men of varying fitness. His best units are digging in along the white sand beaches of Hainan's northern coast...
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