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Shrinking Corridor. The Communists thought they might win the battle for Manchuria in the next six months. A midwinter Communist offensive had narrowed the government's already slender corridor; Mukden and Changchun lay under virtual siege. The railway south of Peiping was broken again; transport planes from Peiping last...
If the Manchurian corridor were wiped out, Red armies would lunge southward against another Nationalist corridor, which runs along the railway westward from Tientsin through Peiping and Kalgan. For this purpose, the Communists were recruiting and training a powerful offensive army in Manchuria.
Broken Cross. More bad news came from the "Chengchow cross," where the east-west Lunghai railroad intersects the rail line running south from Peiping to Hankow. By December, two Communist columns had broken the south and east arms of the cross. (The northern arm had been broken since the end...
Family Ties. In Peiping, China, 1) Wang Leihsiang had her mother arrested as an opium smoker; 2) her sister accused her brother's wife of adultery; 3) the brother's wife killed the two sisters with an ax, hanged herself, left a note explaining to her husband that...
General Fu was something of a novelty among Chinese generals. In the field, he wore the plain cotton-padded uniform of a private, drove his own jeep, ate with his men. U.S. General Albert C. Wedemeyer had found those men the best-drilled soldiers in China. So, before that, had...