Word: suchow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gods. Barbershops were doing a rush business, and fortune tellers were so sought after that they made appointments days in advance. Nanking's miserable colony of refugees from Communist areas was sprinkled with red paper signs asking health & wealth from the gods. An old man who had fled Suchow three months ago tapped tobacco from some cigarette butts into his pipe and said: "At home in Suchow I would be burning incense to the gods. Now look...
...first, it looked as if the only way to get to Suchow was on foot. The Communists had cut the railroad line; no civilian airlines were operating; automobile travel was out; the National Defense Ministry had told correspondents to wait awhile. Gruin looked out of the office window and got his cue. Across the street lived affable, English-speaking General Chou Chih-jou, commander in chief of the Chinese air force. Gruin sent a note to the General, who was lunching at home, asking for an airlift for his men. Ten minutes later the General phoned to ask if they...
...hours, were in Shanghai. The General agreed to a next morning departure. Birns and Rowan boarded a civilian cargo plane at Shanghai, but a ground haze delayed the landing at Nanking until 10 a.m., almost three hours after General Chou's transport plane was to leave for the Suchow battlefront. Gruin spent the interval conning the Chinese airmen into waiting for the overdue plane. At length, the TIME-LIFE team got off for Suchow and their report back to Gruin not only established the fact that the Communists were winning the battle but also helped decide the immediate future...
...great Nationalist sortie from Suchow had failed. Three army groups set out a fortnight ago to break through the Communist encirclement and link up with government forces to the south (TIME, Dec. 13). By last week one entire group-General Sun Yuan-Hang's Sixteenth, with 40,000 men-had been completely wiped out. The remaining troops were huddled into an area ten miles in diameter of flat, marshy land 50 miles southwest of Suchow...
...supplies the Suchow armies had brought with them were quickly exhausted. All last week, through bad weather and Communist flak, commercial and military planes shuttled back & forth from Nanking to airdrop food and ammunition. A returning pilot reported hundreds of Nationalist trucks bogged down along the roads for lack of gas. For the first time in the war he had seen from the air large groups of men actually locked in battle. Every village in sight was burning; the fields were covered with bodies. On his first runs the pilot had had a large rectangle into which to unload...