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Last September, when Government General Fu Tso-yi marched on Kalgan, Wang and his company of 40 men stood at Tsining, a mud-walled Suiyuan railway and mining town where one of the civil war's bloodiest encounters took place. After 23 of his company had died and he was forced to retreat, depression gripped Wang. He asked himself and his men: "Why do we Chinese fight against Chinese? Of what avail was this sacrifice at Tsining...
Chiang Kai-shek won his greatest' victory in years over the Communists last week: General Fu Tso-yi's army marched into scorched and abandoned Kalgan, the Reds' Great Wall "show place." Because Kalgan's fall convinced many that Chiang could take Harbin or any other large Chinese city (as long as he had U.S. help), the victory held a happy political significance for Chinese Nationalists who believe with Chiang that the Communists can be beaten into agreement...
...victor of Tatung was General Fu Tso-yi, 51, governor of Suiyuan since 1931, Confucian protege of old Shansi "Model Governor" Yen Hsi-shan, and known in Kuomintang China as an able, honest, austere soldier. In the hour of victory General Fu took up his brush and addressed a plea to Communist Party chairman Mao Tse-tung: "The battle has taken the lives of at least 20,000 of your troops. We have buried them and wept over them. How sorrowful was the picture as they fled in fright, bleeding and falling by the roadside. I could not but press...
...crimes trial in Tokyo, War Criminal Henry Pu-yi continued his testimony about his trials as No. 1 Japanese puppet (TIME, Aug. 19). In 1940, he reported, Emperor Hirohito had invited him to Tokyo, feted him, presented him with two gifts-a mirror and a sword (both sacred Shinto symbols),* and then sent him home to Shinto-ize Manchukuo. Said Pu-yi, who previously testified that the Japanese had murdered his wife: "It was my greatest humiliation...
...expected Henry to speak his own mind. In childhood he was a puppet of warlords scheming to restore monarchy in China. When he grew up he became a puppet of the Japs, for whom he "ruled" conquered Manchuria. Only once in his 40-year lifetime had Henry Pu-yi ever used his own initiative: at 16, he cut off his own queue when his eunuch barber refused to commit such a sacrilege...