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...plane's top-turret gunner landed just 20 yards apart. They buried their parachutes under the snow. Chappuis guessed that they were about 160 miles behind the German lines, and just north of the Po River. The day was foggy...
...Szechuan-born peasants, Liu Po-cheng early became a soldier, fighting the warlords' battles. In one early encounter, he lost an eye and gained his nickname. During the brief marriage of the Kuomintang and the Communists, he fought for Chiang Kaishek. After Chiang split with the Communists, Liu went to the Moscow Military Academy. On the Communists' famous retreat into Shensi (1934-35), Liu negotiated with savage Lolo chieftains to give the Communists safe passage through their forests. To seal their agreement, Liu and the Lolos' high chieftain drank newly killed chicken's blood. They swore...
...Po-cheng is commander of the Communists' Shantung-Shensi-Hopeh-Honan military areas. Chinese Communists, who regard him as a master of mobile warfare, have a new nickname for him: Chang-shen Chiang-chun (Always Victorious General...
Last week, while Nationalist forces slogged on doggedly toward the seaport of Chefoo, Liu Po-cheng broke loose...
...Communist guerrillas on their deepest raid into Nationalist territory this year, sweeping 300 miles in three weeks. U.S. headlines said that China's capital itself was threatened last week. Nationalist river craft steamed up the Yangtze to see if Liu Po-cheng would attempt a crossing; night guards carefully checked all vehicles entering Nanking. But the city itself was undisturbed, and the city gates were still open...