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For the third time in 21 years Peiping's citizens last week prepared to receive an approaching conqueror. At first their preparations were scarcely perceptible. Skaters still weaved across Nan Hai Lake, near the Forbidden City. In the adjoining park, old gentlemen taking their caged songsters for an airing...
General Fu Tso-yi, Nationalist commander in the north, shattered the city's traditional calm. For a fortnight he had been pulling his troops back from one outlying position after another. His "North China Corridor" had been chopped up into three closets-Kalgan, Peiping, Tientsin. Everything looked ready for...
Then Fu announced that he would defend Peiping to the death. He moved his headquarters, which had been four miles out of town, into the heart of the city, impressed thousands of coolies into digging trenches and throwing up street barricades. A hundred thousand soldiers swirled through the gates, went...
...Peipingers looked on all this activity as a rude intrusion on the quiet culture of their ancient capital. "General Fu is not defending Peiping," they told each other, "Peiping is defending General Fu." There was much to support this view. It was a common rumor that the Reds had picked the lovely cultural center for their national capital. A Communist spokesman in Hong Kong said flatly: "No Chinese army will take the responsibility of destroying Peiping...
He had ranged all over China in 2½ years-Shanghai, Nanking, Hong Kong, Peiping, Mukden. "Today was especially tough," he said. "By the time we get back to Shanghai it will be 16 hours out for me -and only eight hours flying time. We get paid only for flying...