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...there any significance in having Mr. Dubinsky [TIME, Aug. 29] looking smilingly southward from your cover's clothes compass? Perhaps that region of the country could use some of his admirable talents for doing such a mammoth job in so streamlined and painless a fashion...
Within Communist territory there were other millions like Ah Teng. Red leaders in Hankow proclaimed flood relief along the Yangtze as the party's most urgent task. Red armies sloshed southward across swamped fields, heavy guns sinking into the mud. There were mass levies of peasants to shore up dikes and save the riceland. Seven women who each toted more than 70 crates of mud in a nightlong fight against the waters were acclaimed as "flood labor heroes...
Last week, Chen Ming-jen defected to the Communists too. Another southward lunge brought the Communists within 215 miles of Canton, where weary Nationalist officials began packing again. Their next stop: Chungking, scene of their exile during most of the war with Japan. Nationalist General Pai Chung-hsi hastily regrouped what was left of his forces at Hengyang...
...rosy glow which had suffused Canton officialdom after this and Chiang's visit was immediately overcast by news from the north. Communist armies, quiet for more than two months, had begun to roll southward again. From Peiping, the Red radio announced that General Lin Piao, conqueror of Manchuria, was advancing into Hunan province on two fronts, apparently driving for the Nationalist strongpoint at Changsha. Four of Lin's divisions captured the Yangtze port of Ichang, 200 miles north of Changsha. In Shensi province, the Nationalist defenders abandoned Paochi, the western terminus of the Lunghai railroad, but counterattacked east...
Chinese communists claimed the capture of a string of towns 105 to 125 miles south of the Yangtze River yesterday as part of their southward drive. In quiet Shanghai, meanwhile, the government reported that the Reds had signed a mutual defense pact with the Russian-sponsored North Korean regime and had pledged aid to Burmese Communists...