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...activities in Asia are obviously far from over. Red China's leaders are still hailing the "victories" of the Vietnamese over the French in Indo-China. Red propaganda still shouts support of Malayan terrorists and Filipino Huks. "The Chinese revolution is far from complete," screamed No. 2 Red Liu Shao-chi, in a rousing speech to 40,000 in Peking this week. "China's Taiwan [Formosa] has not yet been liberated...
Washington intelligence officers think that the new Chinese offensive is commanded by Liu Po-cheng, wily leader of Red China's Second Field Army and, until recently, military boss of southwest China. Liu succeeds Lin Piao, whose Fourth Field Army has been severely mauled in the Korean fighting. (Other U.S. sources in Tokyo believe that Lin is still somewhere in the Red high command...
...Liu, now 51, fought in warlords' armies, became a Communist Party member in 1926. After Chiang Kai-shek's bloody 1927 ouster of the Communists from the Kuomintang, Liu made his way to Moscow, where he studied guerrilla tactics and Far Eastern politics at the Red Army Military Academy. When Russian troops entered Manchuria in 1929 in a dispute over the Chinese Eastern Railroad, he went along; his assignment was to recruit Manchurian volunteers for the Soviet forces. A year later, he slipped into the Shanghai underground, then went on to the interior to join the Chinese...
After V-J day, Liu proved himself an able guerrilla tactician; his troops played an important part in the defeat of the Nationalists in eastern and central China...
...intelligence on the Chinese mainland has proved excellent, came a report that Mao Tse-tung had decided to send 150,000 men of his Second Field Army, plus 60,000 "irregulars," to replace losses in Korea. Commanding the new troops was one of Red China's top generals, Liu Po-cheng, famed as the "One-Eyed Dragon...