Word: manchurian
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...though thousands around him died during the Death March, in a stinking prison ship, in a Manchurian prison camp. Last week he took the witness chair in the big Manila ballroom where cool, suave Japanese General Masaharu Homma is on trial for his life. Talking quietly and precisely, as befitted his 28 years of service, Jimmy Baldassare became the first witness to link Homma to the infamous Death March...
...Some 26,000 men of the Government's U.S.-trained New Sixth Army prepared to sail aboard U.S. naval transports for Manchurian ports...
Persistent rumors said that Moscow had exacted a price (i.e., joint Sino-Soviet control of Manchurian mines and other enterprises). In any case, the National Government may have felt a price worthwhile. It had already agreed to give Russia railway, naval and trade rights in Manchuria-though the Moscow press last week sneered at "impetuous American imperialists" (presumably ex-Ambassador Patrick J. Hurley...
Chungking, which three months ago was willing to pay a high price to get the Russians out, was now forced into the ironical position of asking the Red Army to hold Manchurian towns until Nationalist troops could arrive. Chungking papers reported that the Russians were willing-at a further price, which-would include coal-mining concessions and navigation rights on the Sungari river...
...there is a front, somewhere ahead. Quick-eyed, shrewd little Lieut. General Tu Liming, commander of the Manchurian expedition, finds the Communists neither well-trained nor well-disciplined. Of the battle at Shankaikwan, which breached the Great Wall, he says: "It was only a skirmish." General Tu expects to reach Mukden (190 miles from Suichung) within two weeks. By week's end, his troops lunged 60 miles forward to Chinhsien, a key rail junction, where the Communists had tried to dig in. General Tu is almost certainly overconfident; he expects to have all Manchuria under control by Christmas...