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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...
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...
Communist armies gripped Harbin, junction of Manchuria's rail network. Communist guerrillas harried water traffic on the Yangtze and the Grand Canal, roved menacingly near the rail arteries connecting Tientsin, Tsingtao and other ports with inland centers, such as Mukden and Tsinan. Red troops cut off Nanking and Shanghai from western China...
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...well-disciplined. Of the battle at Shankaikwan, which breached the Great Wall, he says: "It was only a skirmish." General Tu expects to reach Mukden (190 miles from Suichung) within two weeks. By week's end, his troops lunged 60 miles forward to Chinhsien, a key rail junction, where the Communists had tried to dig in. General Tu is almost certainly overconfident; he expects to have all Manchuria under control by Christmas...