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...give further assurance that Formosans were no longer to be treated like stepchildren, Nanking abolished the governor-generalship outright. Hereafter Formosa will be run like a province of metropolitan China. In Chen's place Nanking was sending a diplomat this time-wise, soft-spoken Wei Tao-ming, Kuomintang lawyer and wartime Ambassador...
...wire stockade at Kalgan there was further evidence of a historic military phenomenon: the diminishment of morale among even the best soldiers when the road ahead is an ever steepening, rock-strewn patch, the enemy one's own people. For eight years, since he was 17, Wang Yu-ming had fought with the Communists' famed Eighth Route Army, had risen from the ranks to the post of deputy company commander and had survived four wounds in battles with the Japanese...
...qualified observers agreed that the last forlorn hope for successful U.S. mediation between Nationalist and Communist forces had all but vanished. On the northern shore of Shantung peninsula, rifles sang and mortars whispered as Nationalist troops besieged Communist Chefoo. Across the Yellow Sea in Manchuria, Lieut. General Tu Li-ming's Government armies were clearing out the peninsula south of captured Antung, preparing for the climactic drive on Harbin (see map). In that target city and in the now-isolated Red capital of Yenan, there was no observance of Chiang Kai-shek's natal...
Hwaiyin (southeast of Kaifeng) also fell to Government forces, while Harbin was menaced by General Tu Li-ming's advancing troops, who were spoiling for a fight in Manchuria "before the snow flies." Along the border of Russian-occupied Korea, Government soldiers were preparing a drive on Antung, "funnel for delivery of foreign [i.e., Russian] supplies to the Communists...
Frederick Wildes Adams, Jr., Irwin Monroe Arias, Walter Robert Beer, Jr., Francis Robert Buckley, Allan Churchill Butler, George Chi-Ming Chen, Edward Cranch Eliot, Carmine Mario Fasano, George Harry Foote, Irwin Bertram Green, Crosby Hitchcock, Thomas Joseph Hughes, Jr., Robert Leon Jenkins, Robert Henry Lautz, David Delamater Mackintosh, George Seward Might, Arnold Whitcomb Morse, James Roland Patterson, Jr., James Stenius Roberts, Ralph Dudley Sanderson, Ralph Henry Vogel, Richard Saltonstall West, William Fryer Wicks, Theodore Henry Woggon, James Joshua Zimmerman...