Word: honan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kaifeng, capital of Honan province, the Communist take-over was peaceful. A U.S. woman missionary said "they came in, fired into the air and told Nationalist soldiers to lay down their arms. Civilians were told to go home-'walk, don't run.' " Commissars posted a bill of rights. One clause provided "freedom of thought and religion." Food was brought in and prices went down. Before the new policy was introduced, ton chang (the people's court) was dreaded by many middle-class Chinese. The Reds admitted regretfully that "in some places landlord and rich peasant elements...
...Chengchow, a rail junction for east-west and north-south traffic in Honan, two Shanghai cotton brokers reported "all was quiet." Their warehouse of cotton had been untouched by the Communists. Said a Red officer: "When the kettle belonged to Chiang, we tried to break it; now that it is ours, we want to preserve...
...Under the arching roof of Nanking's new railroad station thousands of unwashed, penniless students from Honan and Shantung are camped on the dirty cement floor, waiting for a train to resettle them somewhere below the Yangtze. One plays a forlorn tune on a two-stringed Chinese violin. Others huddle beneath filthy grey quilts, while streams of noisy, heavy-laden travelers flow around them. The pump is their lavatory. Their guardian, the Education Ministry, can feed them only one rice meal daily-usually around midnight...
...weeks ago, when wily Communist General Chen Yi seized the Honan capital city of Kaifeng, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek flew to the battlefront to direct the recapture of the city (TIME, July 5). But as Nationalist columns closed in, Chen evacuated Kaifeng and plunged southward through government territory toward the swift Yangtze River...
Last week pursuing Nationalists found Chen Yi waiting for them on a battlefield of his own choosing. Chen's 100,000 Red troops were ranged along a 35-mile stretch of Honan basin land below the Lunghai railroad. The core of Chen's force was made up of veterans of his slashing campaigns in Shantung province. These tough regulars were fleshed out with elements from the army of one-eyed Communist General Liu Po-cheng, and local Red guerrilla bands...