Word: tientsin
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...peninsula, communications were paralyzed. There the Communists held the important harbor of Chefoo. But the more important harbor of Tsingtao was occupied by U.S. marines, under able Major General Keller E. Rockey. In the hinterland Central Government provincial troops struggled with Communists astride the main railway running "south from Tientsin through Tsinan, Shantung's capital...
...cities of commerce and culture, which mean so much to all Chinese, were solidly in Central Government hands. U.S. air forces had just finished transporting Chungking's Ninety-Fourth Army from Shanghai (see ARMY & NAVY) to Peiping, the stately northern capital. Twenty-five thousand U.S. marines were in Tientsin, where they had accepted the Japanese surrender...
...would be delayed, galloping inflation would be harder to check, industrial reconstruction would lag. Above all, a bleak, fuelless winter would lie ahead. For North China's railways tap the nation's great coal mines. Only one of these-the Kailan fields, lying on the line between Tientsin and Chinwangtao -was open last week. U.S. planes and Central Government guards were on the alert to bar any Communist attempt to block Kailan shipments...
...worked tirelessly and with much success to chop up China's communications and paralyze Government progress into North China. The Chinese railway net work north of the Yangtze River is cut in innumerable places. The only important road still operating north of the Yellow River is the Tsinan-Tientsin-Peiping line...
November. The first two or three weeks of November will be China's weeks of decision. Crack Government armies, mostly U.S.-equipped and U.S.-trained, will have arrived in North China. This week Peiping, Tientsin, and Shantung Province were seeing their first "regulars" in eight years. A wave of optimism, in refreshing contrast with the cynicism of the Western World, has been flooding over China, like the Yellow River at crest. But like that mighty, fertilizing stream, it can make for prosperity or sorrow...