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...Chinese made many "transparent allusions" to the murder of Chinese Engineer Chang Hsin-fu, killed near Fushun last January. The Chinese believe the Russians were responsible. The Russians believe that Chinese Communists were guilty. Reported Chneider: "The Chinese kept telling us that they would guarantee our safety to Mukden, and then the Chinese would remind us that the Red Army gave the same pledge to their murdered colleague...
...meeting, worried about a possible "incident," wondered how to protect their wives and children who had settled in Fushun with them. "The Chinese have taken over by force," Chneider said, shrugging as only Russians can. "We have no force." Finally, the Russians got in touch with their headquarters in Mukden, gratefully received their orders to leave Fushun...
...consolidate local positions in Manchuria before the General's pacifying personal prestige could still their guns. A 40,000-man Chinese Communist army blasted the small Nationalist garrison out of Changchun, Manchuria's capital, and halted a relief column near Szepingkai, 70 miles away. Near Nationalist-held Mukden, the Communist-led United Democratic Army ambushed Lieut. General Chao Kung-wu's 25th Division, turned it back from the coal-and-bauxite-rich city of Penki (Penhsihu) new Communist provisional capital for Liaoning province...
Twenty Soviet businessmen, left behind by the Red Army, grumbled because their Government had been denied permission to land a plane that would transport them out of Mukden. Inscrutable Chinese officials had no comment...
Also left behind by the Red Army were 1,300 "White" Russians, who were recently welcomed back to Mother Russia's ample bosom (TIME, Feb. 18). These onetime Czarist zealots, including many an old Manchurian hand, now hold 145 important Mukden properties (apartments, shops, offices, factories), which the Soviet Government had turned over to them from the defeated Japanese...