Word: weis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...General Wei Li-huang has what Chinese call a lucky face: smooth features, no pocks or scars. Among generals, such a face is supposed to mean that its owner will not be defeated, killed, wounded or captured by the enemy. But last week, in his new job as Nationalist Army Chief in Manchuria, it looked as though General Wei's luck was fast running...
...renewed winter offensive, the Communists had at last fully disrupted the railroad between Peiping and General Wei's headquarters in Mukden. That meant that there was no longer a land corridor into Manchuria for the Nationalists. Ninety-nine percent of the land area of Manchuria was in the hands of the Reds; 1% was in General Wei's. That 1% consisted principally of the cities of Mukden, Changchun, Kirin and Szepingkai-dwindling islands of resistance. What remained for the Communist armies under General Lin Piao was simply...
...General Wei would try to make the mop-up as costly to the Reds as possible, try to gain time for his side to strengthen North China. But Mukden's defenders were short of food, fuel and ammunition. Planes of General Claire Chennault's commercial airline shuttled in & out, evacuating nonessential government workers, carrying sacks of flour on the trip in. Then the flour ran out. The flour planes found a substitute. To Mukden's cold and hungry soldiers last week came planeloads of almost worthless bank notes...
...arrival of Government troops stirred anger and alarm in hunchbacked, round-faced Chen Wei-fu. He is one of Paiyen's few intellectuals-a primary schoolteacher who had wholeheartedly joined the Communists and become a magistrate. A report had reached Chen's ears, once, that an old woman carrying water through the fields had met some thirsty Government scouts. They drank from her earthen jars and went off. Wrathful Chen had summoned the old woman. "Why did you cooperate with Chiang's troops?" he shouted. "Why did you give them water to drink?" Then crying, "We must...
...Government general. They begged for retribution and protection. The general told them they must help. There were Communist informers and fingermen in the villages. Slowly, his intelligence men, with whispered guidance from those who bore grudges, rounded up Paiyen's underground. Most important captive was onetime Magistrate Chen Wei...