Word: manchuria
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...Communists, said Lo, wanted to revise upward the 1-to-5 ratio of Red troops to Government troops in Manchuria, agreed upon last February. Marshall was furious with Lo for telling the press that Marshall had said he would guarantee an agreement in 24 hours if the Communists would clearly state their demands. Chou, who hopes to keep the situation as fluid as possible, was equally furious because loquacious Lo had revealed a specific Red demand...
...four weeks since George Marshall had flown home to Washington, the Chinese had fragmented his carefully fitted but lightly glued jigsaw picture of unity. In Manchuria there was large-scale fighting. Marshall, knowing the fragility of his pattern, had gone home for stronger cement. He would need it, if the puzzle were to be reassembled and given any permanent form...
Even as Marshall settled down to a series of conferences, Communists and Nationalists fought fiercely to consolidate local positions in Manchuria before the General's pacifying personal prestige could still their guns. A 40,000-man Chinese Communist army blasted the small Nationalist garrison out of Changchun, Manchuria's capital, and halted a relief column near Szepingkai, 70 miles away. Near Nationalist-held Mukden, the Communist-led United Democratic Army ambushed Lieut. General Chao Kung-wu's 25th Division, turned it back from the coal-and-bauxite-rich city of Penki (Penhsihu) new Communist provisional capital...
...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 in the field...
...Army troops evacuating Manchuria," Atkinson added gently, "are reported to be carrying away similar expressions of love, gratitude and friendship...