Word: mukden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...north was still the critical danger point. Most of China's economic and military woes were highlighted in Mukden. For six months its only link with Nationalist China has been Claire Chennault's commercial airline...
...Mukden was once the Chicago of Manchuria. Now the city has almost no economic fat left. Only 10% of its industrial plant is functioning. More than half its 16,000 shops are boarded...
...last week the Mukden garrison was hanging on. They were even momentarily confident, largely because the expected Communist offensive was two months overdue. Ruddy-cheeked, pipe-smoking Commanding General Wei Li-huang thought perhaps the Reds had not replaced the losses suffered in last fall's attacks. But, though the Communist attacks were beaten off, it was at heavy cost: the Reds had captured foodstuffs which might have fed the city for 15 months...
...bulletins pouring into Nanking continued bad. The Communists were driving a corridor through fertile Shantung; Communist divisions, held up by this month's thaw and mud, were massing around Mukden for a spring offensive...
...Manchuria, nine Communist divisions were pushing toward Tahushan, 65 miles southwest of the government's enclave at Mukden. Capture of Tahushan would block Nationalist efforts to reopen land communications with the Mukden forces. In Shantung, the north coast cities of Weihaiwei, Lungkow and Tengchow had been evacuated by government troops. To the northwest the Reds pressed down on the steadily narrowing Paotow-Tientsin corridor, and wealthy citizens sold their belongings for wads of paper money that they hoped would pay for their flight south...