Word: manchuria
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...referred to battles and clashes in disputed North China (see below), in eleven (by Red count) of China's 28 provinces. In Manchuria, Communist officers bluntly told U.S. newsmen that they intended to keep control of that strategic region after the Russians moved out. Clearly the Communists were on the defensive as the Central Government moved to re-establish its authority north of the Yangtze. Their alarums amounted to a final plea to the U.S. to save them by ceasing to help Generalissimo Chiang regain all China...
...Route Army, Kalgan has become the Communist metropolis (130,000 population), outranking Yenan in size and wealth. It has a cigaret factory, machine shops, a power plant, an iron smelter, railway facilities. It is military headquarters for all Communist operations in Shansi, Hopeh, Chahar and Jehol Provinces and in Manchuria...
Chungking's Foreign Minister, Dr. Wang Shih-chieh, announced that the Red Army was keeping Stalin's treaty promise and withdrawing from Manchuria. The evacuation might be completed by November's end; a trickle of Central Government officials was already moving...
...aspect of the Red Army's occupation held great import for China's economic future. What, if anything, had the Russians done to the tremendous industrial plant developed by the Japanese in Manchuria...
...Shanghai came eyewitness answers: the Russians were stripping Manchuria of its industrial plant. In no position to quarrel with their Red neighbor, the Chinese would have to revise their plans to make Manchuria a great foundry of national reconstruction...