Word: kirin
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Tramping of Boots. Along these miles of roads the Japanese have heard
ominous -and recent-eastward trampings of Russian military boots.
Items: Kirin. Former headquarters: far inland at Chita, east
of the Lake Baikal region.
Ailing General Chen Cheng was savagely criticized for his failure while commander in chief in the northeast. Screams rose for his execution. "We must restore morale with a man's head . . ." Many pleaded for the arming of village militia-why did not the government trust the people? A Kirin man recited a bitter song sung by "abused, ill-equipped local forces." The song...
...news from Manchuria was almost as bad as the Shensi catastrophe. Kirin, a fat prize with its huge Hsiaofengmen hydroelectric plant (power source for Changchun and Mukden industries), fell to the Reds. Then, after an eleven-day onslaught, the Reds took Szepingkai. Only Mukden and Changchun held out. When they fell, 300,000 more Red soldiers could plunge south into the heart of China...
...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...
...Manchuria the situation is altogether different. Government troops hold most of South Manchuria, except Dairen and Port Arthur which are occupied by the troops of the Soviet Union. But Communist troops hold all the rest of Manchuria, except a long finger-shaped salient from Mukden to Kirin. This salient follows what was once the major railroad of Manchuria, passing through Szepingkai and Changchun. It is a railroad no longer. Communists have destroyed every bridge north of a point 30 miles to the south of Szepingkai. Most of the ties have been burned, and many of the rails twisted by placing...