Word: shansi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Along a battered railway in North Shansi, where the year's last tasseled kaoliang still stands unreaped, the biggest, bloodiest battle in a year of China's civil war has just ended. A Government army, rolling to the relief of Tatung, effected a junction with a column from the long-besieged city...
...victor of Tatung was General Fu Tso-yi, 51, governor of Suiyuan since 1931, Confucian protege of old Shansi "Model Governor" Yen Hsi-shan, and known in Kuomintang China as an able, honest, austere soldier. In the hour of victory General Fu took up his brush and addressed a plea to Communist Party chairman Mao Tse-tung: "The battle has taken the lives of at least 20,000 of your troops. We have buried them and wept over them. How sorrowful was the picture as they fled in fright, bleeding and falling by the roadside. I could not but press...
When I got back to the Department I found news from G-2 that a Japanese expedition had started. Five divisions had come down from Shantung and Shansi to Shanghai and there they had embarked on ships-thirty, forty or fifty ships-and have been sighted south of Formosa. I at once called up Hull and told him about it and sent copies to him and to the President...
Ravaged, still-disputed Manchuria was the ugliest wound that would have to heal before the pattern of Chinese unity could be complete. To heal other sore spots in Shansi, Honan and Hupeh provinces, tireless U.S. Peacemaker George Marshall toured North China, working in the difficult lower political levels to win practical realization of the military truce he and China's top leaders had arranged. Amid his stops was isolated Yenan, capital of Chinese Communism. There he remained overnight, caught cold watching an elaborate performance of drum dancers and folk singers in an icy auditorium, had a long talk with...
...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...