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...months ago, Marshal Yen Hsi-shan, commander of besieged Taiyuan, kept 500 vials of poison in his office, swearing that he and his staff would kill themselves if the Communists took the city (TIME, Nov. 15). Last week the Reds held Taiyuan and the Marshal, unpoisoned and unbowed, was Premier of China...
...Reds struck and took east & west. Hankow, key to the middle Yangtze and the Pittsburgh of China, seemed ready to go the way of Nanking; a crack Red army from Manchuria, under General Lin Piao, was advancing hard from the north. In China's northwest, long-beleaguered Taiyuan, site of the biggest Nationalist arsenal below the Great Wall, fell before another Communist blow...
During the Communist siege of Taiyuan, Marshal Yen Hsi-Shan, leader of the Nationalist forces, arranged to have TIME Pacific parachuted to him along with the ammunition supplied by chartered planes. In Tokyo, General Douglas MacArthur reads TIME, as does Emperor Hirohito, after his secretary translates...
Camels & Crutches. The flat valley land on both sides of the road into Taiyuan was a forest of pillboxes of every shape and size imaginable to military ingenuity. While soldiers piled bricks to build more pillboxes, brown-skinned Shansi farmers worked unperturbed in patches of cabbage, surprisingly still green. Nestled close to the road itself was a rabbit warren of trenches. The road was clogged with a procession of laden camels, donkey carts, peasants carrying baskets on shoulder poles and others pushing crude barrows...
Inside the city's 40-ft.-thick walls, civilians clustered at the doors of tight-packed rows of shops. The bandaged heads of soldiers stood out in sharp relief among the crowds. Every few hundred yards our car passed soldiers hobbling on crutches or canes. Most of Taiyuan's factories are still working-the arsenal, largest below the Great Wall, at full capacity; the cotton mills, machine-tool works, cigarette factories and soda works at reduced output for lack of raw materials. The shops were filled with all kinds of goods-except food...