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...Tu's father was a military scholar who organized militia for Sun Yat-sen and wrote A History of Chinese Tactics and Strategy of the Past Four Thousand Years. Because Tu was an only son, the old historian did not want him to be a soldier. But Tu ran away, entered Whampoa Military Academy, and graduated with the first class, in 1924. A vigorous sportsman in peacetime-he likes to hunt wild asses from horseback in the Gobi-Tu is also an accomplished paratrooper. He got his training from OSS experts training Commando troops in Kunming...
...General Tu studied his father's History well. In 1945, he put ancient Chinese tactics to good use to unseat (on the Generalissimo's orders) the old warlord of Yunnan Province, Lung Yun. Tu told Warlord Lung that Nationalist troops would merely be holding maneuvers in Yunnan's capital. Then he surrounded Lung's troops and disarmed them. When Lung was moved to a face-saving position as chief of the National Military Council in Chungking, he demanded punishment for upstart General Tu. The Generalissimo obligingly "banished" Tu to the Northeast China Command to direct...
Suffering from a lame leg last week, Tu could not visit the front as he liked to do. Unhappily, the front was coming to him, anyhow. Nanking was rushing reinforcements to the northern theater by land...
...Changchun's situation was not desperate. Some supplies could still come in by air. Some of the citizenry were even running a Changchun Mobilization Committee to bolster the morale of General Tu's troops. The committee supplied candy and cigarets, comforted the wounded, set up tea stalls for the men, bought food for army horses...
Canceled Celebrations. Changchun had seen five armies since V-J day: first the Japanese, then the Russians to toss out the Japs, then the Chinese Nationalists, then (briefly) the Communists, finally General Tu and the Nationalists again. Changchun was getting a little tired of the fortunes of war. On one day last week fell the anniversary of the Communists' withdrawal from Changchun after their short 1946 occupancy. Reported Shanghai's Shun Pao: "It passed silently in a tense atmosphere. The prescheduled celebrations were given...