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Broken Cross. More bad news came from the "Chengchow cross," where the east-west Lunghai railroad intersects the rail line running south from Peiping to Hankow. By December, two Communist columns had broken the south and east arms of the cross. (The northern arm had been broken since the end of the Japanese war.) Another Communist army moving southward cut the west arm. The Communists appeared to have made good on their promise to "nail the Nationalists to the Chengchow cross...
Still another Communist offensive, directed by General Liu Po-cheng, the "one-eyed dragon," was taking shape in the vital Yangtze Valley. Nationalist troops moved in & out of Hankow daily; the city's mayor, recalling how the Japanese took Hankow by a surprise attack from the rear in 1937, said hopefully: "I think there is no way for the Communists to come into Hankow." It was not even certain that the Communists would...
Soft Spot? Already the Yangtze Valley was cut off from wheat and coal from the west. Spearheads of Communist raiders stabbed river defenses west of Hankow, looking for a soft spot southward into the Szechuan and Honan rice fields. If they crossed the Yangtze, they would next try to cut the Canton-Hankow railroad...
...Reminded Them . . ." The Seventh Day Adventists at Yencheng left their mission and 80-bed hospital a week before Christmas. Normally, Hankow is only a day's rail journey south. It took them-six Americans and 28 Chinese led by Elder Merritt C. Warren of California-three weeks...
Elder Warren helped tend some of the wounded. Said he: "Those Reds are plucky. ... I boiled water and got food for them. I also reminded them that when they found our chapels they usually destroyed them. . . ." At Hankow the missionaries got word of their hospital back in Yencheng: it had been burned...