Word: mukden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...about the city, wiped out upwards of a quarter of its Nationalist garrison in bitter fighting, then bypassed and isolated the remainder. Now the Communists were striking 100 miles farther south, toward the mud-laden Huai River, last organized defense line before Nanking. Suchow might become another Tsinan or Mukden. If the Nationalists followed their former tactics, they would sit there waiting for death...
...Communists were overrunning China like lava. Mukden and all Manchuria were gone-and 60% of China's best troops had gone with them. In the great rust-red plain between Nanking and Suchow, the last government armies in Central China confronted an enemy that had beaten them before. U.S. military experts had given Nanking "ten days to three weeks...
...that failure, some of them felt, was the performance of Chiang's own Whampoa Academy generals. Said one Chinese bitterly last week: "They are old and tired; in 20 years they have passed from the sunrise to the sunset." Some had turned carpetbagger. In one instance, soldiers defending Mukden watched a planeload of payday currency signed over to an army general and flown back to his bank in Shanghai. The government now knew that it did not have to tolerate abuses like that. It showed that it could learn: at Suchow this week, for the first time since...
...heavyset, spectacled Chinese in a black overcoat with brown fur collar separated himself from the group at the stove, and paced slowly back & forth across the width of the hut. He talked readily. He was General Hu Chia-yi, former Mukden garrison commander. He had left Mukden on the last Chinese Air Force plane to get off in the last few days before Mukden's fall. His force of 500 military police was the city's only defense. What did he think of the government strategy in Manchuria? He hesitated. "Pu-tui-ti" (Mistaken), he said, and resumed...
...turned its back. The U.S. had made mistakes, he pointed out, which could not be corrected overnight. China's Nationalist government was also deeply at fault. Something was obviously wrong with Nationalist military leadership. Why, for example, had well-trained, well-equipped Nationalist divisions refused to fight at Mukden...