Word: manchurian
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...offensive had narrowed the government's already slender corridor; Mukden and Changchun lay under virtual siege. The railway south of Peiping was broken again; transport planes from Peiping last week began to evacuate government civilian employees from Mukden and Changchun. But Nationalist troops hung on grimly inside the Manchurian corridor. Said their commander in Mukden: "We must hold Manchuria...
...Manchurian Crisis...
Chinese Communist armies had the initiative in Manchuria. Moving down from the north, they cut the railway that connects the Manchurian capital, Changchun, with Government strongholds farther south. Then the Communists advanced toward Changchun itself. Inside the city, spruce, gimlet-eyed General Tu Yu-ming, Government commander for all Northeast China, tried to decide whether the Communists were out to capture Manchuria's capital or only worry...
Paratrooper General. Youngish (44) General Tu, who sometimes wears a brown stocking cap at headquarters to keep his straight, black hair trained back, had his detractors. Manchurian deputies shouted in Nanking that the Communists were making headway because Tu's officers were busy dealing in opium and loafing in dance halls. But General Tu had shown great ability in beating the Communists to control of southern Manchuria 18 months ago. Now he hoped to keep it from them...
Distant, dusty, and millennially old, Yenan had been the ideal Communist capital-equally inaccessible to invading Japs and preoccupied Nationalists. Now that it was indefensible against Chiang, the Communists would continue the fight in other areas, such as the Communist pocket in coastal Shantung Province and, preeminently, on the Manchurian front. (Last week Shanghai heard that Russian troops were at long last pulling out of Dairen...