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...Doorstep. The Communists continued to slash at the arteries of China's economic life. Red General Chen Yi dashed from Shantung Province into the river valleys of neighboring Honan. Almost before Nationalists knew he was on the move, Chen's three columns converged on Honan's capital city of Kaifeng, garrisoned by a single government regiment...
...Minister of Finance, thrice advanced to the platform and thrice retreated before a barrage of yowls and hisses from the floor. One excited delegate jumped up to the mike, crying: "The country is almost lost! How can we talk about moneybags? To save the country is the important thing." Honan delegates stood up, howling: "Our homes are in danger!" and started a walkout. Shantung men called for reinforcements. Shansi wanted more bombing planes. Mongols and Turkis asked if the government had forgotten that the northwest was a gateway to the Chinese heartland. "Trust us ... arm us and we shall fight...
...True Picture." He had told his audience what most of them wanted to believe and they applauded him thunderously. But not all. A Kaifeng delegate piped that the report was "incomplete and inadequate." Pandemonium erupted in the hall. A woman member from Honan sobbed: "Honan is almost entirely in Communist hands. We must have the true picture...
Last week that picture was dark and doubtful. Along the east-west Lunghai Railway the government suffered its great est loss. Twenty thousand Communists under General Cheng Keng fought their way for the second time into Loyang, a major Nationalist bastion in Honan...
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...