Word: manchuria
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...policy is expected to be unequivocal: open, forthright cooperation with Chiang Kai-shek's National Government, serving notice on the Chinese Communists that the U S. will not be deterred from carrying out its promise to assist the Chungking Government in taking over North China and Manchuria from the Japanese...
National Government troops in pastel green uniforms shop for meat and vegetables on the streets of Suichung, some 30 miles northeast of the famed Chang Chen (The Great Wall). A Cantonese soldier, who looks everlastingly cold in Manchuria's November weather, carries a bunch of celery under his arm. Another plods across a field where white sheep graze on sparse brown stubble, with a pair of unwrapped pigs' feet dangling in one hand...
...General Tu expects to reach Mukden (190 miles from Suichung) within two weeks. By week's end, his troops lunged 60 miles forward to Chinhsien, a key rail junction, where the Communists had tried to dig in. General Tu is almost certainly overconfident; he expects to have all Manchuria under control by Christmas...
Logistics & Morale. The problem of recapturing Manchuria from the Communists, to whom the Russians consistently resign control by the handy process of an early withdrawal before the National forces can arrive, seems largely one of communications and supply until Mukden is reached...
Myth v. Fact. The Russians may be stripping Manchuria's factories, but there is no evidence of it in Suichung. This southwestern outpost of Jap and Russian occupation has only one factory-a mercury refinery erected years...