Word: railing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trained nor well-disciplined. Of the battle at Shankaikwan, which breached the Great Wall, he says: "It was only a skirmish." General Tu expects to reach Mukden (190 miles from Suichung) within two weeks. By week's end, his troops lunged 60 miles forward to Chinhsien, a key rail junction, where the Communists had tried to dig in. General Tu is almost certainly overconfident; he expects to have all Manchuria under control by Christmas...
...southern Indo-China, dominated by the great harbor and naval base of Saigon, French troops mopped up Viet Nam guerrillas. Like the Chinese troops, the British were technically present to disarm the Japanese, were helping the French. In a skirmish at Bienhoa, a rail town some 20 miles northeast of Saigon, two British Indian soldiers were killed...
Communist guerrillas had cut the rail road from the great Kailan coal mines to the port of Chinwangtao. For nine days none of the Kailan coal, which China desperately needs, had moved. U.S. Major General Dewitt Peck, commander of the ist Marine Division, tried the route to Chinwangtao. For two days Communist guerrillas sporadically attacked his train. Near Lwanhsien village, his train was stalled by Communist small-arms fire. General Peck ordered the marines to fire back, while he sat smoking his pipe and cursing. Then he called for a Piper Cub to finish the trip. His superior, Major...
...west, in the inland provinces of Honan, Shansi, Suiyuan and Chahar, the Communists were on the offensive. They had attacked at least a dozen provincial towns surrendered by the Japanese to Central Government forces. At week's end they were storming two important places: Tatung, North Shansi rail junction; and Kweisui, capital of Suiyuan...
General Tu reported that the Russians had "guaranteed" a safe landing in Manchuria-but not at Dairen and Port Arthur. The port of entry was Yingkow, a minor harbor with rail connections to the interior. The Russians gave due warning that, elsewhere in southern Manchuria, presumably at Hulutao and Antung, Chinese Reds might not be so agreeable...