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...battles. In one early encounter, he lost an eye and gained his nickname. During the brief marriage of the Kuomintang and the Communists, he fought for Chiang Kaishek. After Chiang split with the Communists, Liu went to the Moscow Military Academy. On the Communists' famous retreat into Shensi (1934-35), Liu negotiated with savage Lolo chieftains to give the Communists safe passage through their forests. To seal their agreement, Liu and the Lolos' high chieftain drank newly killed chicken's blood. They swore, in this ancient feudal ceremony, that whoever broke the agreement would end up like...
...Yenan last week the Communist elite of the onetime Red capital seemed gone for good, but the natives of the place-whom the Chinese Communists loved to call lao pai hsing (the common people)-were drifting back to town from their temporary and dusty bivouacs in the Shensi hills. TIME Correspondent Frederick Gruin looked on, then cabled this account...
...Faith. "Somewhere in North Shensi" the old Yenan radio came back on the air. It repeated the months-old line that the Reds were "trading empty cities for Kuomintang casualties," although four months ago the Communists said they would defend Yenan "to the death...
Cried Radio Yenan: Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's troops, "corrupt and rabble-like" (but armed with "large numbers of field guns, trench mortars and American-supplied bazookas") had attacked Communist troops in the Shensi border region. It was "fullscale civil war. . . . Chiang's divisions declared that fighting the Communists comes first and fighting the Japanese comes second...
...Chinese High Command had warm words of praise last week for Major General Claire Chennault's Fourteenth Air Force. It had helped slow the Japanese thrust into Shensi. But the General was in no mood to praise or be praised. He called in American and Chinese newspapermen to hear harsh news: thieves and gangsters in "both organized and unorganized bands" were hampering the operations of his air force...