Word: rails
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...North. In the South and West the Chinese Government's control was secure. The Government held some three-quarters of the country. But north of the Yellow River* (see map) it was all the Government could do to protect the big cities and keep the main rail lines open. The Chinese Communists, who lacked the strength to take Peiping, Tientsin or Mukden, controlled the countryside of North China and Manchuria. They could, and did, tear up rail lines (sometimes within ten miles of Peiping...
...Blue Plan called for an attack, à la Bastille,† on the Vannes prison in Brittany and the Fresnes prison near Paris. They were scheduled to be stormed Aug. 6, and collaborationists kept there were to be armed. Commandos were to cut rail lines, seize communications centers. Anti-Communist fears were to be whipped up by a series of disasters on the Reichstag Fire model...
Midnight Taxes. The Nationalists did hold the major cities and rail lines of North China. But the Communists ruled the countryside. They had the best chance to gather North China's summer crops. The Government could not even protect at night some of the villages it controlled by day. Near Peiping last week, a 70-year-old Chinese farmer complained that the Communists had come by night, three times in the past month, to collect "taxes." Had he reported this? "Heavens, no," said the old man, "the Communists would cut my throat the next night...
...half-light of early morning, Train No. 4034, bound for Paris, swung round the long bend outside the rail junction of Trappes, near Versailles. From the signal control box, high above the furrowed crisscross of rails that gleamed dully in the light of a swinging lantern, Signalman André Robert saw fire belching from the locomotive as it ground to a halt. Said he: "You see that man watering the engine-I happen to know he gets 6,000 francs a month. His board and lodging costs him 5,100 a month. He is ashamed to tell his colleagues that...
Boasted Marcel Tournemaine, flabby Communist secretary-general of the Railroad Workers Federation: "No Government has ever held out against a rail strike; either it gives way or it resigns...