Word: mukden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year ago the Chinese Communists put veteran Diplomat Angus Ward, U.S. consul general in Mukden, under virtual house arrest. Later they refused to let him close the consulate to go home, denounced him as a spy. A month ago they clapped him into jail, alleged that he had beaten a Chinese employee (TIME, Nov. 7). When the U.S. State Department, through Consul General 0. Edmund Clubb in Peiping, sent a note of protest, Red Foreign Minister Chou En-lai did not even receive Clubb: the note had to be left at Chou's door...
Agreement with the Chinese Communists is particularly difficult at present, Fairbank admitted, because of the hostility displayed by the Chinese in such acts as the arrest of Angus Ward, American Consul-General at Mukden...
...Mukden, after studiously ignoring him for about four months, Communist officials finally paid some attention to white-goateed Consul General Angus I. Ward, 56. The Reds arrested him and four members of his staff. The charge: beating up a discharged Chinese employee, one Chi Yu-heng, after he had demanded severance pay. The entire population of Mukden, the Communist radio reported, was demanding punishment for "this savage and brutal act perpetrated by American imperialists." Ward has not been allowed to communicate with Washington since his arrest...
Communist forces, completing a 1,500-mile victory march since Mukden's capture almost a year ago, entered from the north. A million Cantonese carried on impassively while the Red underground among them emerged for jubilant street parades and dancing of the yangko...
...People's Government for the Northeast" (i.e., Manchuria), proclaimed by a "People's Congress" in Mukden. Its chairman is one Kao Kang, 47, who is also secretary of the Communist Northeast Bureau...