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Hengyang, Kweilin, Tushan, Liuchow-the names fall like a dirge on the South China wind. The time is 1944, and the stench of burning Chinese towns masks the peaceful summer scent of oranges, persimmons and rice fields. With the Japanese armies at their heels, U.S. demolition teams mine the strategic airstrips with 1,000-lb. bombs gouging the good earth as they retreat. The irony is that they outrun the enemy but are runners-up to history...
...tung's regime promised moderation, tolerance and forgiveness. Last week tolerance was lost in the mounting clamor of a great Red terror. Mao Tse-tung's regime announced the execution of 120 "counterrevolutionaries" at Canton, 56 at Swatow, 89 at Hankow, 28 at Kweilin. In scenes reminiscent of the tumbril-and-guillotine days of the French Revolution, the Communists turned the spectacle of death into public carnivals, with music and dances...
...south, meanwhile, Nationalist General Pai Chung-hsi continued his withdrawal down the Hankow-Canton railroad, finally set up field headquarters at Henyang, where the railroad branches out to Kweilin in Pai's home province of Kwangsi. To the east, units of one-eyed Red General Liu Po-cheng's armies moved into the towns of Nanping and Shahsien in Fukien province, putting Communist vanguards within 300 miles of the refugee Nationalist capital in Canton. In Canton, Garrison Commander Yeh Shao issued a proclamation declaring the city to be in a state of war, advised citizens who could...
...answer. Li had almost nothing with which to bargain with the Red armies who at week's end stood within 15 miles of China's capital, Nanking. The government was preparing to move to Canton on the south coast and its armies were pulling southwest toward Kweilin and south toward Chekiang Province...
Farther north, six Chinese columns squeezed Kweilin's defenders "like a turtle in a jar." When Kweilin fell, the Chinese would have recovered the seventh. U.S. air base since the Japanese turned north...