Word: liaotung
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...seven columns soon isolated the Nationalists in their cities and drew them out for costly battles that chewed up whole divisions without gaining ground for either side. Bled and battered, the Nationalist-held cities began to fall: by October 1948, Lin's forces held Mukden, Changchun and the Liaotung Peninsula, and had killed or captured 400,000 of Chiang's troops (including 36 generals replete with their arsenals). Then, advancing an average of six miles a day, Lin struck out for Peking, which fell 1"5 weeks later...
...Manchuria by the end of 1952. But the Russians tacked a hard condition on to another 1950 promise: until a peace treaty is signed between the Communist states and Japan,* they will not turn over to the Chinese the powerful naval base of Port Arthur, on Manchuria's Liaotung Peninsula. Beyond these specifics, the communiques said only that other "important political and economic questions" had been discussed. At least ten of Chou's top 14 advisers remained behind in Moscow, presumably to work out the Sino-Russian program...
...which China recognized the independence of Korea, ceded Formosa, the Pescadores Islands and the Liaotung Peninsula (in Manchuria) to Japan, and agreed to pay Japan a heavy cash indemnity...
Chungking spokesmen conceded that the great city of Harbin would fall to the Chinese Communists when the Russians pull out this week. For the moment, at least, the Nationalists were confined to the western and northern coastal area of the Liaotung Gulf, save only for the blunted column reaching from Mukden along the Dairen-Harbin railroad toward Changchun. The Communists-with 300,000 troops already in Manchuria-were siphoning in more, by land from the northwest, by sea from Shantung Peninsula to the Liaoning province port of Antung. The Nationalists had two more armies en route, five already...
...Chungking spokesman reported that crewmen from a U.S. submarine had landed at Newchwang, Manchuria, and purchased fresh fish from the natives. To reach Newchwang, at the northern end of the Gulf of Liaotung, the submarine would have had to penetrate the string of islands off the southern tip of Japan, cross the Yellow Sea, creep past the Jap naval base at Port Arthur, lie off nominally Jap-occupied territory. Total Pacific bag of U.S. submarines to date (including twelve more merchant sinkings announced last week...