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...Taiyuan has become the prime Communist objective in North China. Taiyuan, surrounded capital of Shansi Province, is the last island of resistance protecting the southern flank of Nationalist General Fu Tso-yi's North China corridor. For three years Taiyuan's commander, oldtime warlord Marshal Yen Hsi-shan, has fought off increasingly heavy Communist attacks. Last week TIME Correspondent Robert Doyle flew in to visit the marshal. Doyle cabled...
Next morning the auto was gone again and there was a smile on the face of Officer Shamus Finnegan. "If they're going to be that way about parking," groaned Bottle, "I shan't bother to pick it up until I have occasion...
Because he is bored with his own, he calls himself by many names: "The Old Man of the Apricot Orchard," "Hut on Chieh Shan Mountain," "The Man Long Separated from the Studio of Eight Ink Stones." But in China last week any of those names, signed with slender strokes upon a painting, were immediately recognizable as belonging to Ch'ih Pai-shih, China's most popular living artist...
SAILOR: "Very well. I shan...
...large areas of China the government still held control. Sometimes the Reds caught a lesson, as did raiding General Ting Hsi-shan. When he raided Tsingpu, near Shanghai, he ran into an ambush. His head was pinned to the Tsingpu city wall...