Word: manchuria
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...Manchuria, Chiang Kai-shek's trusted Chief of Staff Chen Cheng was cleaning house among grafting politicos and generals ; he had had at least two generals shot, some 30 more jailed...
...first whirlwind week in Manchuria, Chen invited 100 bigwigs to a tea party in Mukden. While his notable guests were sipping tea, Chen made them a little speech: "You gentlemen here can trust me when I say I have never squeezed. In this respect-to make a joke-I am 50 years old and like the spinster who has gone through many hard years struggling to keep her virtue spotless and knowing well that relations with a man even once would have ruined her reputation forever." Politely the 100 guests laughed...
...country. But north of the Yellow River* (see map) it was all the Government could do to protect the big cities and keep the main rail lines open. The Chinese Communists, who lacked the strength to take Peiping, Tientsin or Mukden, controlled the countryside of North China and Manchuria. They could, and did, tear up rail lines (sometimes within ten miles of Peiping...
...Manchuria, the Government had 150,000 of its best regular troops, many of them trained and equipped by the U.S. for fighting Japs. They were strong enough to batter the Reds away from the rail lines at Szepingkai this month in a major engagement. But the Government was not getting much out of what it held of Manchuria. The big coal mines were shut down; the harvest could not be moved over transport lines broken by Communists...
...base of the Shantung peninsula, the Government had even more regulars than in Manchuria. One great task was reopening the Tientsin-Nanking railroad. Yet, in the Shantung campaign, chasing Communists was like punching a sack of rice. The fist sank in, but the Communists bulged back instead of breaking...