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Battle Hell (Wilcox-Neagle; DCA). Britain's pride in her navy is amply documented here in a superbly realistic re-enactment of Britain's own "Yangtze incident." In the spring of 1949, when the Reds were taking control in China, the British frigate H.M.S. Amethyst steamed up the...
*Not to be confused with the Japanese bombing and sinking of the U.S. gunboat Panay on the Yangtze, upstream from Nanking on Dec. 12, 1937.
Offstage Noises. On June 28 "security forces" unmasked a counter-revolutionary group in the old Nationalist capital of Nanking. In Hanyang, the Communist radio reported, 1,000 students had demonstrated for two days, shouting, "Welcome back to the Kuomintang. Chairman Mao will come down off the stage soon."
ONE day in January 1949, an LST flying the red-and-blue ensign of Nationalist China pulled away from the dock at Nanking and headed down the muddy Yangtze, its tank deck crammed with a priceless cargo. Another heavily laden LST had already made its way safely across the East...
With ten centuries of accumulated art to look back over, Ming masters became eclectics, painting in several different styles. The mark of the age was its delight in intimate, everyday scenes, anecdotal and often merely decorative. But with the custom of copying from old masters, along with an absorption in...