Word: ichang
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...than two months, had begun to roll southward again. From Peiping, the Red radio announced that General Lin Piao, conqueror of Manchuria, was advancing into Hunan province on two fronts, apparently driving for the Nationalist strongpoint at Changsha. Four of Lin's divisions captured the Yangtze port of Ichang, 200 miles north of Changsha. In Shensi province, the Nationalist defenders abandoned Paochi, the western terminus of the Lunghai railroad, but counterattacked east and west of the town. Another big battle was shaping up in western Kiangsi province, directly above Canton...
...south of the city. If Liu could cut the rail line, he would have Sinyang encircled and more than 100,000 Nationalist troops in the trap. Besides, by cutting the line he could link with other Communist forces to the south and threaten the Yangtze Valley from Hankow to Ichang...
...dikes of the broad Yangtze still held, but the river had set new high water marks, was still rising. At Ichang, a record 100 ft. of water halted all upriver traffic through the famed gorges leading to Chungking; Hankow's suburbs were awash; Kiukiang's busy wharves lay submerged, and sampans instead of rickshas carried passengers through the streets...
...Chinese Central Government troops swept into Canton, Shanghai, Ichang, Nanking. In Nanking their first act was to pay their respects to the memory of Sun Yat-sen at his mausoleum. All Japanese forces in China were to be surrendered within the week...
...Chungking at Chinese invitation to study potential hydropower sites, asked to visit the Yangtze gorge. The bleak area was a fighting zone, but the Chinese Army guaranteed Savage safe conduct. In quiet broken by occasional rifle shots from the sleeping front, Savage charted possible dam sites except those above Ichang at the mouth of the gorge, which was in Jap hands...