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Bold Effort. For eight days the Gimo had pondered, on the cool heights of Kuling, what he might do to save China from deepening disaster. Last week he flew back to sweltering Nanking with his answer-a program of fiscal reform to combat runaway inflation. China would have a new...
Everywhere bridges slid into the raging torrents, roads melted, walled cities stood isolated, and drenched huddles of refugees dotted the high ground. Hunger was certainly ahead; maybe famine. Nanking officials shook their heads. "This is a bigger defeat," said one, "than any inflicted by the Communists."
Dedicated by Generalissimo & Mme. Chiang Kai-shek as a Christian church in Nanking: the presidential mansion. The Chiangs, who live elsewhere, had promised themselves (in 1937) that they would convey the mansion as such a gift if the Japanese were defeated.
Each month, from beleaguered Changchun and Mukden, 140,000 people press through the opposing military lines and cruel no man's land toward Tientsin, Peiping and the hope of a living. The distance they cover is upwards of 800 miles. The ordeal they undergo, as culled from my own...
A Nationalist force of about equal strength moved in from the east and west, under the overall direction of Chiang's chief of staff, General Ku Chu-tung. The Red commander struck first, and brilliantly. He picked off a Nationalist brigade, and decimated an entire Nationalist division, the newly...