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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...personal prestige could still their guns. A 40,000-man Chinese Communist army blasted the small Nationalist garrison out of Changchun, Manchuria's capital, and halted a relief column near Szepingkai, 70 miles away. Near Nationalist-held Mukden, the Communist-led United Democratic Army ambushed Lieut. General Chao Kung-wu's 25th Division, turned it back from the coal-and-bauxite-rich city of Penki (Penhsihu) new Communist provisional capital for Liaoning province...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Glue for the Dragon | 4/29/1946 | See Source »

...took China's Central Government seven months to bring its No. i war criminal to trial, but only six hours to try him and a week to find him guilty. In the century-old mansion that houses the Kiangsu High Court at Soochow, Columbia-educated Chen Kung-po, last president of the late Wang Ching-wei's Nanking puppet regime, heard the judgment of his people: traitor, death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Exhibit Greatness | 4/22/1946 | See Source »

Next morning the truce was drafted. From the rostrum of the opening session of the Political Consultation Conference, the Generalissimo proclaimed the news amid a thunder of applause. Cried Chungking's Ta Kung Pao: "General Marshall . . . has achieved merit of global proportions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Truce | 1/21/1946 | See Source »

...omens were propitious. First, the influential Kuomintang newspaper Ta Kung Pao reported that agreement had been reached on two fundamental points: 1) the Kuomintang and Communist Par ties would cooperate on an equal footing in the reconstruction of China under Chiang's leadership; 2) all political and non-political groups would confer on participation in the Central Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Hope in Chungking | 10/8/1945 | See Source »

...week's end Chungking gave substantial confirmation to Ta Kung Pao's report. Differences still outstanding between the Parties will be submitted to a new, fully representative political council to meet soon under the chairmanship of the Generalissimo. For its part, the Central Government has agreed to release political prisoners, grant freedom of speech, curb the activities of the Chinese special police. The remaining differences were too important to be taken lightly. Among them: the size and control of the Communist Army, administration of the Communist areas, the Communist request to postpone the Constitutional Convention slated to meet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Hope in Chungking | 10/8/1945 | See Source »

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