Word: tso-yi
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Manchurian disaster were also serious. After mopping up around Mukden, handsome Communist Commander General Lin Piao, once Chiang Kai-shek's star student at the Whampoa Military Academy, will be able to mass some 250,000 Red troops for a southward thrust at Peiping and General Fu Tso-yi's North China corridor. Unless Fu can get substantial reinforcements, the fall of North China will be merely a question of Communist convenience...
...danger caught North China's Nationalist commander Fu Tso-yi badly off balance. A fortnight ago Communists had pushed up north of the Great Wall west of Tatung. When Fu's troops dashed westward to drive them back, another Communist force from the north came down in their rear to strike the rail line west of Peiping, threatening to sever it completely and cut Fu's army in two. If the Communists succeeded' in this, Peiping, Tientsin and all North China would be lost...
...less likely possibility is Fu Tso-yi, energetic and relatively successful commander in the northwest. Fu is not a member of the Whampoa group but would probably be more acceptable to it than would Li. Fu and Li are both members of the Tsa-Pai (mixed label) group...
...conference of his top military men. The entire Central China front hung in delicate balance. Any additional divisions the Gimo threw in to tip the scales would fatally weaken the sector from which they were withdrawn. His most dependable combat troops, the tough, hard-fighting veterans of General Fu Tso-yi, were already over-extended and outnumbered in the vital Peiping corridor...
...officers and men of General Fu Tso-yi's command are among the best in China. Fifteen months ago, Fu's crack troops swept the Reds out of the vital North China outpost city of Kalgan. They turned with high morale to rebuilding the destruction left by the retreating Communists. But elsewhere in China, the war had gone badly. General Fu and some of his men had been called east to defend the Peiping area, thus reducing the defenses of Kalgan. In the outpost city a fortnight ago, a TIME correspondent found a solemn mood...