Word: liao
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ching spoke bravely of making Shanghai "a second Stalingrad." Quietly and unannounced, Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek had briefly visited Shanghai, defiantly proclaimed his hope of "final victory" in three years. A long-gowned shopkeeper, standing in his deserted tobacco shop, read the Gimo's words, said sadly: "Mo-liao yi pao [his last salvo...
Unfortunately, a full-scale Manchurian Dunkirk from Yingkow was no longer possible. The success of the operation depended on the ability of General Liao Yao-hsiang to keep open the escape corridor with twelve divisions, to allow the remaining seven Nationalist divisions to embark. Last week, the Communist radio announced that Liao's whole demoralized force had been wiped out. Significantly, it added that the disaster had occurred "on the eve of the U.S. elections...
...Newcomers. Not Chou En-lai but two lesser Communists, Wang Ping-nan and Liao" Cheng-chi, publicly made the secession threat. Both came some months ago from Chungking to Nanking, where they have been relatively obscure members of the Communist delegation. Wang is solemn, homely, rather likable. He is direct, clipped in speech, and generally uses an interpreter though he understands English well. His wife is a Polish Communist, who is said to have strong influence over him. Liao also speaks excellent English, out of the corner of his mouth. The emergence of Wang and Liao, like the emergence...
...Liao Chang-shin was an innkeeper in Changshow, a little Yangtze river port some 60 miles from Chungking. Business was brisk and Liao seemed at peace with the world. When, from time to time, somebody disappeared in Changshow without leaving a trace, the innkeeper, like most of Changshow's citizens, shrugged his shoulders. People are always disappearing these days...
...police received an anonymous letter. It sounded incredible, but they investigated. Then the story came out: since April, Liao Chang-shin, with the assistance of one Hsui Chang-shan, had robbed and killed 78 people, most of them guests at his inn. When police caught Liao, he was about to dispose of Victim No. 79, who had given him $90,000 (Chinese) for safekeeping. Last week Liao and Hsui were awaiting death after confessing that they had averaged a little over a murder...