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National Government troops in pastel green uniforms shop for meat and vegetables on the streets of Suichung, some 30 miles northeast of the famed Chang Chen (The Great Wall). A Cantonese soldier, who looks everlastingly cold in Manchuria's November weather, carries a bunch of celery under his arm. Another plods across a field where white sheep graze on sparse brown stubble, with a pair of unwrapped pigs' feet dangling in one hand...
...ahead. Quick-eyed, shrewd little Lieut. General Tu Liming, commander of the Manchurian expedition, finds the Communists neither well-trained nor well-disciplined. Of the battle at Shankaikwan, which breached the Great Wall, he says: "It was only a skirmish." General Tu expects to reach Mukden (190 miles from Suichung) within two weeks. By week's end, his troops lunged 60 miles forward to Chinhsien, a key rail junction, where the Communists had tried to dig in. General Tu is almost certainly overconfident; he expects to have all Manchuria under control by Christmas...
Myth v. Fact. The Russians may be stripping Manchuria's factories, but there is no evidence of it in Suichung. This southwestern outpost of Jap and Russian occupation has only one factory-a mercury refinery erected years...
...stuffed with wadding and his tough constitution, inured to sub-zero winters, should make him no mean match in freezing Jehol for men from Japan's warm islands. Last week Japan's three-barbed offensive, closing in on Chengteh, the capital of Jehol, from Kailu, Chinchow and Suichung, advanced through snows as much as a foot deep, braved blizzards which reduced visibility at times to nil, plunged on with thermometers so low that Japanese machine guns occasionally jammed, frozen tight...
Japan's southern spearhead, plunging upward from Suichung, was for some reason largely composed of the Empire's most cold-hardened troops, soldiers from Hokkaido, northmost major island of Japan. To reach Lingyuan they would have to take two mountain passes of great natural strategic strength. Reputedly these passes were held by picked troops sent down from Chengteh by the Governor of Jehol, redoubtable Tang Yulin (see col. 1) and up from China proper by "Young Marshal" Chang Hsueh-liang of Peiping...
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