Word: mukden
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...civil war flamed briskly. It was a week of military setbacks for the Communists. After capturing Chengteh with surprising ease, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's armies were closing in on Chihfeng, last big Communist base in Jehol. Purpose of the campaign: to clear the railroad from Peiping to Mukden and to free from Communist threat the Government corridor from North China to Manchuria. The Jehol offensive also put flank pressure on Kalgen, capital of Chahar province and the Communists' No.1 base...
Communist armies gripped Harbin, junction of Manchuria's rail network. Communist guerrillas harried water traffic on the Yangtze and the Grand Canal, roved menacingly near the rail arteries connecting Tientsin, Tsingtao and other ports with inland centers, such as Mukden and Tsinan. Red troops cut off Nanking and Shanghai from western China...
...Army's sweep through Manchuria swept up, among other industrial loot, a Japanese optical-goods factory at Mukden. On the guard-box at the factory entrance (see cut) Russian soldiers painted Prince Alexander Nevsky's triumphant boast after his Russians had crushed the invading Teutonic Knights at Lake Peipus...
...Generalissimo and Madame Chiang flew to Mukden in Marshall's plane. No news about their mission leaked out. The embattled press suddenly adopted a more temperate tone. Experts on Chinese politics sniffed peace in the air. If it came it would be as limited, mixed and tentative as the civil...
...spokesmen conceded that the great city of Harbin would fall to the Chinese Communists when the Russians pull out this week. For the moment, at least, the Nationalists were confined to the western and northern coastal area of the Liaotung Gulf, save only for the blunted column reaching from Mukden along the Dairen-Harbin railroad toward Changchun. The Communists-with 300,000 troops already in Manchuria-were siphoning in more, by land from the northwest, by sea from Shantung Peninsula to the Liaoning province port of Antung. The Nationalists had two more armies en route, five already in the field...