Word: manchuria
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...Communist aim: to control a belt of territory reaching roughly 500 miles from Soviet-dominated Outer Mongolia to Soviet-occupied Manchuria...
...Into Manchuria. Within limits, the U.S. was helping the Government of the Republic of China. Off the Manchurian coast, aboard transports escorted by war ships of Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid's U. S. Seventh Fleet, hovered Central Government troops. They had come to take over from the Soviet Red Army, as agreed in last August's Sino-Russian pact. But, for no given reason, Red Army commanders balked at opening Manchuria's main ports of Dairen and Port Arthur. Hasty parleys were called at Changchun...
General Tu reported that the Russians had "guaranteed" a safe landing in Manchuria-but not at Dairen and Port Arthur. The port of entry was Yingkow, a minor harbor with rail connections to the interior. The Russians gave due warning that, elsewhere in southern Manchuria, presumably at Hulutao and Antung, Chinese Reds might not be so agreeable...
Other Central Government troops, preceded in the North China port of Chin-wangtao by U.S. marines, met strong Communist resistance when they tried to march beyond the Great Wall into Manchuria. The Government troops skirmished fell back and waited for reinforcements...
...Communist forces along the Great Wall were part of the famed Eighth Route Army. After taking over the ancient crossroads city of Kalgan, some 215 miles inland from Chinwangtao, and making it the capital of a new border government, the Eighth turned its energies to Manchuria. A Communist spokesman blandly explained that the Russians, observing the letter of their treaty obligations in Manchuria, had forbidden the Eighth to enter -as an army. But the Russians had welcomed Communist "civilians." Said the spokesman: "There is a possibility that these civilians armed the people." In any event, strong Communist forces were grouped...