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Word: jehol (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there was now a long hospital train waiting to pick up the wounded from a battle raging to the east, at Yenching. Lieut. General Lu Yingling and Major General Li Ming-ting, two of Fu's best field commanders, were dead. Red cavalry marauders moved freely in adjacent Jehol province (see cut). In Kalgan, staff officers muttered: "The Communists keep growing stronger. Nothing we can do seems to stop them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Nothing We Can Do . . . | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

...lines were free of Communist troops. Between the Communists' Inner Mongolia base at Kalgan, and their lair at Yenan, the fall of Tatung and Fengcheng enabled Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's forces to drive a battering wedge (see map). Another Government army closed in on Kalgan from Jehol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Victory | 9/30/1946 | See Source »

...China the civil war flamed briskly. It was a week of military setbacks for the Communists. After capturing Chengteh with surprising ease, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's armies were closing in on Chihfeng, last big Communist base in Jehol. Purpose of the campaign: to clear the railroad from Peiping to Mukden and to free from Communist threat the Government corridor from North China to Manchuria. The Jehol offensive also put flank pressure on Kalgen, capital of Chahar province and the Communists' No.1 base...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Massive Decision | 9/16/1946 | See Source »

While the peacemakers dickered, China's civil war raged on. Both sides announced important gains. The Nationalists claimed the capture of Chengteh, capital of mountainous, strategic Jehol province. The Communists claimed the capture of the railroad junction of Tatung, near China's Great Wall, after a four weeks' siege...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: War & Peace | 9/9/1946 | See Source »

Deep in Communist territory to the north, 24,000 Nationalist troops held out in the ancient fortress town of Tatung (now an important rail junction) against a month-long siege by 80,000 Communists. In Jehol, Communists said that Chiang Kai-shek was massing for a drive against Chengteh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Strategic A | 9/2/1946 | See Source »

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