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East of Taiyuan, General Chen Yi, conqueror of Tsinan, finished mopping up Shantung province and formed for a southward drive on Suchow, main Nationalist stronghold across Shantung's southern border...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Retreat | 10/25/1948 | See Source »

...forces battered and blackmailed their way into Tsinan, capital of Shantung province, last week. The city's fall put the Communists astride a rail and road net to north & south, east & west. The "North China People's Government," recently proclaimed by the Reds, became a reality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OHINA: Province for a Poet | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

Handsome General Wang Yao-wu, governor of Shantung, had fought a losing battle for more than a year. His troops had struggled against dwindling supplies, semi-starvation, hordes of refugees and crumbling morale. Across the Yellow River, ten miles from Wang's Tsinan headquarters, wily Communist Commander Chen Yi, a strategist and a poet, had set up a "reception house," vigorously spread the word that all hungry Nationalist deserters would be welcome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OHINA: Province for a Poet | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

...waiting for them on a battlefield of his own choosing. Chen's 100,000 Red troops were ranged along a 35-mile stretch of Honan basin land below the Lunghai railroad. The core of Chen's force was made up of veterans of his slashing campaigns in Shantung province. These tough regulars were fleshed out with elements from the army of one-eyed Communist General Liu Po-cheng, and local Red guerrilla bands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Limited Victory | 7/19/1948 | See Source »

...propaganda bullets were as ineffective as the lead ones. The Red position worsened. After nine days' fighting, Communist Chen Yi abandoned the field, slipped north to his old Shantung stamping ground, where he could return to harassing hit-run tactics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Limited Victory | 7/19/1948 | See Source »

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