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...time of Ching Ming, the Pure Brightness Festival. Throughout the land the Chinese people, obeying ancient precepts, dutifully swept and tidied the graves of their ancestors. At the foot of a pine-dotted mountain in remote Chungpu, Shensi province, such a grave was swept. This was the tradition-hallowed tomb of the greatest ancestor of all, Huang Ti (Yellow Emperor), legendary Father of the Chinese race...
...fortnight ago, at Yenan, Nationalist General Hu Tsung-nan decided to beat the Communists to the punch. Two army divisions, under Generals Liu Kan and Yen Ming, marched south. West of Ichuan they met the Red force. Six hours later the Nationalists had suffered 20,000 casualties. Only 2,000 soldiers escaped. Both General Liu and General Yen lay dead...
...Nankow Pass, where last November the turreted guns of an armored train had dominated the gateway to Kalgan, there was now a long hospital train waiting to pick up the wounded from a battle raging to the east, at Yenching. Lieut. General Lu Yingling and Major General Li Ming-ting, two of Fu's best field commanders, were dead. Red cavalry marauders moved freely in adjacent Jehol province (see cut). In Kalgan, staff officers muttered: "The Communists keep growing stronger. Nothing we can do seems to stop them...
...Manchuria, the Government's hold was weaker than at any time in the 19 months since General Tu Yu-ming's troops recovered control from the Japanese. General Tu still held Mukden and Changchun (the capital), but the Communists camped on his line of communication with the south. Manchuria's great seacoast city of Dairen was still in Russian hands. There was little chance that General Tu could take Dairen if Russia did leave. General Tu's men were busy digging trenches and even medieval moats around the cities they still held, not looking for more...
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...