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Incredibly enough, at week's end, the Gimo's confidence seemed to be working -at least for the moment. The "ten days to three weeks" were up, and the Communists were not yet in Nanking. They had been fought to a standoff in their frontal assault at Suchow and were now shifting for another try, apparently by encirclement, from the south...
...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...
...defend China's heart, the Gimo had disposed 400,000 troops in the flat, rich, water-laced plains around Suchow. At week's end, as his soldiers met the first shock of Chen Yi's armies, Chiang made one more effort to rally his people around him. At a Kuomintang meeting in Nanking, Chiang cried: "Our war against the Communist rebels is a national war, a continuation of the war of resistance against the Japanese . . . We must be ready for a struggle of eight years or more against the Communists . . . The government is determined to fight...
...starting point "for improving social practices" the Gimo proclaimed a new movement-"industriousness and austerity for national reconstruction." "This movement," said the Gimo, echoing his racket-busting son, Ching-kuo (TIME, Sept. 20), "is a revolutionary social movement . . . Its mission is to check the tendency to extremes of wealth and poverty. Eventually life at the front will move downward to the soldiers' level and life in the rear to the common people's level...
...Gimo had a list of specific changes demanded by the new austerity: fewer passenger cars and more buses; fewer attendants and servants for public officials; less meat, tobacco, wine, candies and superstitious use of joss paper; cheaper weddings, funerals and gifts on holidays; a boycott of dance halls and gambling; heavy taxes on luxuries; severe penalties for government offices which steal water...