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All week, Nationalist Nanking and Red Peiping had bargained and bickered over terms. Peiping's Red radio had spurned a new Nationalist petition for an "equal and honorable peace." "Mad and erroneous," it shouted at Nanking. "There is only one way to peace, and that is complete surrender . . ."
Bypassing the peace delegates, Boss Mao had drafted an ultimatum, sent it south to Nanking by special messenger. Its chief demand: within four days, the Nationalist armies must be transferred to Communist command. Otherwise Red troops, strengthened in the past months by fresh conscripts and regular reinforcements from Manchuria, would...
While Peiping rode the crest of victory, Nanking languished in the slough of defeat. From the Nationalist capital TIME Correspondent Dwight Martin cabled:
Nanking lies quiet and hushed in the soft spring evenings. In the cool, cavernous railroad station, less than three months ago jammed with shouting soldiers and wailing refugees, a lone coolie sweeps his twig broom. Outside, street lights flicker wanly until 11 p.m. Then they go out. After midnight (curfew...
Fights in Nanking between soldiers and anti-government student demonstrators injured 144 persons late yesterday following departure of an official mission to talk peace with the Chinese Communists. The students charged the government was making insincere peace overtures and that it actually was preparing for continued civil war. They also...