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...there is a front, somewhere ahead. Quick-eyed, shrewd little Lieut. General Tu Liming, commander of the Manchurian expedition, finds the Communists neither well-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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Through the Great Wall | 12/3/1945 | See Source »

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