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It was 3:30 in the morning after the great Communist offensive began. From positions around doomed Nanking, Nationalist artillery still fired an occasional shot toward Communist positions on the Yangtze's north bank. Retreating Nationalist soldiers poured back across the river in tugboats and barges. In the yellow...
Nationalist leaders said: "We will fight to the bitter end . . . Nanking will hold out for six months." But they knew they could not keep these brave promises; the bitter end was at hand.
At dawn, Acting President Li Tsung-jen, together with Premier Ho Ying-chin and Nanking's garrison commander, sped to the city airport. Soldiers put them aboard waiting planes, hastily jumped in after them and slammed the doors. Behind them, Nanking lay waiting for the conquerors.
"The police had disappeared from Nanking's streets; many had put on civilian clothes. A wave of looting swept the city. A mob swarmed up the long, fir-tree-lined driveway to President Li's grey brick home. A ragged boy shoved a porcelain sink through a smashed...
Slowdown by Noon. "On broad, dusty Chungshan Lu, Nanking's main street, a pretty Chinese girl, trim in a white sweater, cycled by, said good-morning in perfect English, and serenely rode on.