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...south, General Huang Wei's Twelfth Army Group continued to hold out within a five-mile area near Suhsien. Of its original force of 100,000, about 40% had been lost in two weeks. Two armies from the government's Huai River line pressed northward village by village in an effort to rescue Huang (see below). In five days they had made about 20 miles. At week's end they still...
...streak pf humility remains. He showed it recently when he and Madame Chiang, with sons Ching-kuo and Wei-kuo, went over to the Christian church which the Gimo had presented to Nanking. No pastor was present. The Gimo himself preached a little sermon, taking his text from I. Chronicles: "As for me, I had in mine heart to build an house of rest for the ark of the covenant of the Lord . . . But God said unto me, Thou shalt not build an house for my name, because thou hast been a man of war . . ." Jehovah had willed the assignment...
...What Shall We Do?" In the main battle, east of Suchow, government troops were forced to retreat. A mechanized group under General Chiu Ching-chuan (whose second in command is the Gimo's younger son, Chiang Wei-kuo) broke up a Communist attempt at encirclement, and helped other Nationalist divisions to fight their way back to the west and south. The well-watered North Kiangsu plain seethed like an ant heap with soldiers on the move, as Government Field Commander General Tu Yu-ming desperately shifted his men over rutted roads and torn-up rail tracks to establish...
...exception to the Nationalist strategy of evacuation was Mukden (see map), site of the best arsenal in all China. Twice in the last fortnight Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek had flown north to confer with General Wei Li-huang, Mukden's commander, and stir him to a more active defense. As the garrison from starving Changchun hacked southward to join the Mukden forces, Wei's columns drove down to retake the port of Yingkow, reopening Mukden to direct sea supply. More of Wei's troops thrust west to relieve Chinhsien...
Open Door. Wei's force did not make it, and last week Chinhsien fell. It had been a key link in the Nationalist lifeline to Mukden and Changchun. From Chinhsien, supplied by rail from North China and by sea through the port of Hulutao, the Nationalists had flung an airbridge to Mukden. Chinhsien's fall left Mukden dependent for supplies on Yingkow (which freezes over in November), and after that on the long and hazardous airlift from Peiping and Tientsin...