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...trusted local commanders in remote areas to equip and organize their own commands. In North China, local authorities have been buying arms for militia forces independent of the Central government, and the use of silver dollars (banned by the Central government in 1935) has spread. In Manchuria, General Wei Li-huang has recruited, equipped and trained four new divisions. Without the Ginio at the head of the government, the splintering process would be speeded up. Divided, the Nationalist military leaders would be easier pickings for the Reds...
...last week the Mukden garrison was hanging on. They were even momentarily confident, largely because the expected Communist offensive was two months overdue. Ruddy-cheeked, pipe-smoking Commanding General Wei Li-huang thought perhaps the Reds had not replaced the losses suffered in last fall's attacks. But, though the Communist attacks were beaten off, it was at heavy cost: the Reds had captured foodstuffs which might have fed the city for 15 months...
...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...