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...Communists completed the first new line on the way to Russia, a 314-mile stretch between Chungking and Chengtu (see map). That fall they completed a 216-mile roller coaster across 1,000 bridges and viaducts from Tienshui, terminus of the old main line from the coast, to Lanchow, the heart of the "New Northwest." The Communists are now at work on at least twelve more strategic railroads, more than 4,000 miles long, which will join Russia's Asian network in at least two places. Among them...
Expert Help. Most revealing of the tributes was a speech by China's No. 2 labor boss, Lui Ning-i, listing some-doubtless not all-of the Chinese projects on which Russian experts have been working: the Peking-Hankow, Canton-Hankow, Chengtu-Chungking and Tienshui-Lanchow railways; the Huai River conservation plan (employing some 5,000,000 workers, many of them slave laborers); the Chinkiang water detention basin, the new Tangku harbor in Tientsin. According to best estimates, there are 60,000 Russians "helping out" in China...
Consolation In Mecca. Meanwhile, along Marco Polo's ancient silk trail, a Red army pressed westward from captured Lanchow, toward the important Yumen oilfields, and the Sinkiang oases. Some 40,000 hard-riding but weakly armed Moslem horsemen were the only barrier...
...Boss. The tidings of his son's victory reached Ma Pufang as he was settling down in his big stone headquarters outside the walls of Lanchow, gateway to the Northwest. The dying Nationalist government had appointed him supreme commander of an area about 13 times as big as Texas, mostly wasteland, underdeveloped and underpeopled (about 14 million-one-third Han Chinese, one-third Moslem Chinese, and the remainder Tibetans, Turkis, Mongolians, Kazaks). Ma's elevation put the Northwest on its own. His land was a poor holding in comparison with the lost coastal regions and lush river valleys...
Chinghai province, where he has been lord and governor since 1936, he sent a column of his Moslem cavalry to Lanchow. They pitched their white tents and grazed their horses on the city's airfield, took over the guard of public buildings. Ma was making sure that Nationalist troops in Lanchow would not revolt against him. Then, unannounced, he followed in a green Buick escorted by a truckful of bodyguards...