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Twenty-eight smaller dams have already been built on the Yellow and its tributaries, and 31 others are in progress. The Reds also plan to attack the Yellow with two other mammoth reservoirs at Liukia Gorge in Kansu Province and Lungyang Gorge in Tsinghai Province. They are due to be completed...
...First Field Army (about 280,000) garrisons China's northwest, stretching from Kansu province to the distant Sinkiang border of Russian Kazakstan. Its boss is wily General Peng Teh-huai. A politician as well as soldier, Peng is also deputy to Chu Teh, the Red army's commander in chief; he and Chu are the only generals on the five-man secretariat that administers the Chinese Communist Party machine...
...When he took office in February, Yeh told Peiping's municipal workers: "I often make mistakes and I welcome correction. But I would not welcome it chalked on the toilet wall." Other Red delegates: General Lin Piao, conqueror of Manchuria; Lin Po-chu, chairman of the Communist Shensi-Kansu-Ningsia border government; Li Weihan, Communist party whip and negotiator at Marshall mission conferences two years...
...their defending troops, the People's Army withdrew on their own initiative from Paochi . . ." But to the Red initiative was added that of General Hu. In a series of running battles that cost Peng 20,000 men, Hu drove him off into the high, rugged country of east Kansu...
Communist China now claims 80,000,000 people and 1,000,000 square miles of territory. For five years it has been a land of mystery to the outside world. Last May Chungking lifted its blockade, let foreign correspondents enter the Border Region, the Communist area in Shensi, Kansu and Ninghsia...