Word: shantung
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Communist raiders were tearing up railway lines faster than they could be replaced, almost faster than the news could be relayed to the next strong point.* There were some bright spots: the Government had driven the Communists from their main seaside base, in Shantung; had won some local gains in the north. These, however, were details; the important news from China was that the Communists were winning the civil war, and would go on winning it unless Nanking found new sources of men, money and arms...
...founding of Sun Yat-sen's republic. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek flew back to Nanking from a tour of battlefronts, and broadcast to the nation. Proudly he ticked off the year's brighter spots: capture of the Communist capital, Yenan; the mopping up on the coast of Shantung. Then he made a promise about what was happening north of the Great Wall: "We will not lightly yield one single inch...
...cheng is commander of the Communists' Shantung-Shensi-Hopeh-Honan military areas. Chinese Communists, who regard him as a master of mobile warfare, have a new nickname for him: Chang-shen Chiang-chun (Always Victorious General...
...base of the Shantung peninsula, the Government had even more regulars than in Manchuria. One great task was reopening the Tientsin-Nanking railroad. Yet, in the Shantung campaign, chasing Communists was like punching a sack of rice. The fist sank in, but the Communists bulged back instead of breaking...
...Shantung, the Nationalists had set out to obliterate large Communist forces. It looked as though the Communists had been driven back into the Shantung hills, but five times this spring the Communists had struck back hard...