Word: mukden
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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...
Because of the lost supplies, Mukden's 2,500,000 civilians faced slow death by hunger and disease. Cabled TIME Correspondent Frederick Gruin after a look at the city: "You see the marks of the struggle in the taut, unsmiling faces on the streets. You see it in the meagerly equipped hospitals where acute tuberculosis has doubled. Rickets, twilight blindness, beriberi and other vitamin-deficiency diseases have become common...
...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...