Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fighting flared anew in The Netherlands East Indies last week. The nationalist movement seemed to be getting out of its leaders' control. At Surabaya 1,600 British troops, attacked by large Javanese forces, well armed with Jap equipment, including tanks, had some 100 casualties. President Soekarno of the "Indonesian Republic" flew from Batavia to give a cease-fire order. The next day native hotheads killed Surabaya's British Commander, Brigadier Aubertin W. S. Mallaby...
...drama of the reoccupation of East, South and North China moved toward its climax. The South was completely in hand. In the East-the Yangtze Valley-Government authority was all but complete. Only the North remained out of Nationalist control...
...cities since Aug. 15, are being rounded up and disarmed. Each day the U.S. air forces land between 2,000 and 4,000 Chinese regulars in Peiping-and American pilots count themselves a day nearer home. Each day the American influence in China's military picture diminishes and Nationalist influence rises...
...month of October, while much-publicized peace talks were going on in Chungking, saw plenty of fighting between the Nationalists and Communists. The Communists made bitter and partly successful efforts to seize North China and wreck the Nationalist chance of successful occupation. A fortnight ago in northwest Shansi, bailiwick of aging "Model Governor" Marshal Yen Hsi-shan, a Communist concentration ambushed 10,000 of Marshal Yen's troops, and killed several thousand of them before they could be extricated. Hundreds of miles farther north, many a day's march beyond the scene of Marshal Yen's trouble...
...China coast the Communist Eighth Route Army held a solitary port, Chefoo. But a strong U.S. naval force cruised offshore. At strategic Tientsin and Tsingtao, U.S. marines landed and nonchalantly took over. Later they would hand the cities to the Nationalist Government. Other Marine contingents had raised their standards in Peiping and Chinwangtao...