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Gruin had TIME Correspondent Robert Doyle on hand, but the LIFE photographer-reporter team of Jack Birns and Roy Rowan, who had scored a beat with their eyewitness report of Mukden's last hours, were in Shanghai. The General agreed to a next morning departure. Birns and Rowan boarded...
The few supplies the Suchow armies had brought with them were quickly exhausted. All last week, through bad weather and Communist flak, commercial and military planes shuttled back & forth from Nanking to airdrop food and ammunition. A returning pilot reported hundreds of Nationalist trucks bogged down along the roads for...
"To defend the Yangtze," an old Chinese proverb runs, "you must defend the Huai." While Nationalist attention was focused north of the Huai last week, two of Communist General Chen Yi's agile columns (about 30,000 men) slipped over the muddy stream, struck at the Nationalist rear. At...
The railroad station at Pukow, just across the Yangtze from Nanking, was choked with people. Soldiers, bulky in padded winter khaki, bivouacked on the concrete platforms. Their rice cooked in big iron pots over wood fires. Grimy refugees hovered nearby with begging bowls. Petty traders, going uprailway to barter cloth...
"Hurry, Hurry!" Our train chuffed into Pengpu, 100 miles above Nanking, at dusk after a seven-hour trip. All along the steel corridor-single track except for station sidings-military traffic flowed heavily. Every railside town and village crawled with soldiers. Dumps of rice and munitions crowded rail platforms and...