Word: taiyuan
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...Shans? province, walrus-mustached old Governor Yen Hsi-shan (once known as the "Model Governor" because he suppressed the opium traffic) had enough forces to defend his dilapidated capital, Taiyuan. But he could not move against the Communists who now held almost three-fifths of the province. A lot of Communists had filtered into rich south Shansi when the Government withdrew troops for the attack on Yenan. "We traded a fat cow for a skeleton," say bitter men in Taiyuan. Shansi people used to admire...
...shan because he fought his wars in the enemies' provinces. That time has passed. Last week, a TIME correspondent asked Yen what would happen if the Government cannot relieve Taiyuan...
Through to the outside world last week came a vivid delayed cable recently sent by United Pressman Jack Belden, whose tough job was to cover the headlong Chinese flight from Taiyuan in the North: ''Scenes of horror marked the retreat of the Chinese, including former Communist corps. Screaming and running like maniacs, [were] soldiers whose skin had been burned from their hands and face, splashed by sulphur bombs...
...second great Japanese victory of the week was in North China. There Lieut. General Seishiro Itagaki's advance (TIME, Nov. 15) overwhelmed the besieged provincial stronghold of Taiyuan and at least 1,000 of its Chinese defenders were slain as Japanese stormed and breached through the walls...
...reported to have ordered the execution of his subordinate General Li Fu-ying, Commander of the 61st Chinese National Division, for abandoning Tatungfu to the Japanese without a fight after being ordered to hold it at all costs. Under terrific Japanese bombing was Governor Yen's capital Taiyuan. In Suiyuan Province still farther inland winter has already come, but Mongolian troops allied with the Japanese last week spurred their shaggy little ponies over hard-crusted snow to engage Chinese defenders and press them back in indecisive skirmish warfare...