Word: suiyuan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Comfort from Moscow. One of the Northwest's Nationalist strong men had been General Fu Tso-yi, who was called from the Suiyuan back country to defend North China. Last February, outnumbered and outmaneuvered, Fu surrendered Peiping and his own allegiance to the Communists. Last week his new masters sent him back to Suiyuan to win over a former subordinate, Nationalist Governor Tung Chi-wu, still holding out in Paotow...
When wind of Fu's mission reached Canton, the Nationalist high command sent two missions flying northward with silver dollars. They arrived too late, turned back in dejection. Like General Fu, Governor Tung joined the Red army and, as an earnest of his loyalty, turned Suiyuan over to Communist Boss Mao Tse-tung...
...practiced by China's Communists in the strategic northwest, vacated by the Japanese more than a year ago, has seemingly ended in a political mistake rivaling their military failure. This is a conclusion hard to escape after a strenuous plane, truck and rail tour of the Chahar Shansi-Suiyuan border region...
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...
...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...