Word: manchuria
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...world's most important cities (to the U.S. position in world strategy) is Mukden, capital of Manchuria. Last week Mukden was virtually under Communist siege. If it fell, the Communists might well carve Manchuria from China and incorporate it into the Soviet bloc. TIME Correspondent William Gray went to Mukden to see how the war was going. His report...
...excuse for our failure, it has been said that there is corruption within the Chinese government. . . . This is the same Chinese government, headed by the same individual, which we have supported against Japanese aggression since the invasion of Manchuria 16 years ago. ... It is the same government with which we fought shoulder to shoulder for five years...
Missing Territory. As winter set in, China's northeast (Manchuria) was more than nine-tenths gone already. The columns of Communist General Lin Piao were pulling back a few dozen li after a punishing six-week offensive there. The Communists had not attempted to storm cities like Mukden and Changchun. They had been satisfied with attrition and wreckage. Along 150 miles of Manchuria rail lines they had warped rails to uselessness over bonfires of railroad ties. They had carted away the Manchuria harvest, disrupted coal and electricity supplies. The winter of 1947-48 would be bitter in Mukden...
...Manchuria outnumbered Nationalist forces clung to a few encircled cities, including Changchun and Mukden; Ying-pan, an approach to the strategic Fushun coal center, was besieged. The rest of Manchuria was in Communist hands. Nationalist losses had been heavy...
...League Member Lo Pin-chi was directly helping Communist forces in Manchuria...