Word: shansi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eyed Dragon. To the south, Communist forces closed in for the kill on rich Taiyuan, capital of Shansi province. Like Mukden ,Taiyuan has an excellent arsenal. During the last Communist attack on Taiyuan some months ago, Nationalist airborne reinforcements came in to save the day. This time it looked as if the outnumbered 40,000-man garrison would have to fight it out alone...
Toward midnight on the 30th day of the Communist siege, the weary defenders of walled and moated Yinghsien prepared to repel another assault. Outposts had spotted a Red force moving on the Shansi Province town from the southwest...
...floor. One excited delegate jumped up to the mike, crying: "The country is almost lost! How can we talk about moneybags? To save the country is the important thing." Honan delegates stood up, howling: "Our homes are in danger!" and started a walkout. Shantung men called for reinforcements. Shansi wanted more bombing planes. Mongols and Turkis asked if the government had forgotten that the northwest was a gateway to the Chinese heartland. "Trust us ... arm us and we shall fight the Communist bandits...
...shan (once known as the "Model Governor" because he suppressed the opium traffic) had enough forces to defend his dilapidated capital, Taiyuan. But he could not move against the Communists who now held almost three-fifths of the province. A lot of Communists had filtered into rich south Shansi when the Government withdrew troops for the attack on Yenan. "We traded a fat cow for a skeleton," say bitter men in Taiyuan. Shansi people used to admire...
...democracy" practiced by China's Communists in the strategic northwest, vacated by the Japanese more than a year ago, has seemingly ended in a political mistake rivaling their military failure. This is a conclusion hard to escape after a strenuous plane, truck and rail tour of the Chahar Shansi-Suiyuan border region...