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Hankow, on the middle Yangtze, was a city of refuge last week. Into it from newly abandoned mission stations in Honan and. northern Hupeh provinces-by rail, truck, mule cart and often on foot-trekked American missionaries. They felt unable any longer to live and work in an area where Chinese Communists now marched almost at will. Three missionaries had been shot to death by "bandits" who hauled them from a bus shouting: "You are Americans, and Americans must die!" They were Martha Anderson of Minneapolis, Esther Nordlund of Chicago, and Dr. Alexis Berg of Finland, all attached...
...cheng is commander of the Communists' Shantung-Shensi-Hopeh-Honan military areas. Chinese Communists, who regard him as a master of mobile warfare, have a new nickname for him: Chang-shen Chiang-chun (Always Victorious General...
...flatlands of China's Honan Province, near Chengchow, a tiny rivulet of muddy water oozed into a dried-up channel and meandered sluggishly toward Pohai Gulf, some 400 miles to the northeast. The rivulet, a man-made branch of the Yellow River, was the first fruit of the giant flood-control effort to thrust "China's Sorrow" back into its pre-1938 bed. In Shanghai, UNRRA Engineer Oliver J. Todd, director of the project (TIME, June 17), contemplated news of the trickle with mixed emotions. "Todd Almighty" knew that this was no dream come true; in fact...
This offering might undermine the Communists' formal objection to the project; but their real fear was that the revised river course would sever their armies in Honan and Shantung Provinces. They warned UNRRA that if work continued they would "feel free to take whatever action they deem necessary"-which obviously did not mean a lawsuit...
Death without Bullets. Thunder out of China is often an eloquent book. White's picture of famine in Honan is one of many moving passages...