Word: tsingtao
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week also brought news to Canton of the fall of Tsingtao, last Nationalist pocket in North China. South of the river Communist armies advanced without opposition. The Formosa registration counter did a brisk business...
Last week the changeover was in full swing. Marine air groups at Tsingtao, Guam and Ewa (outside Pearl Harbor) had been pulled back to the mainland; naval air headquarters was moving to San Diego and closing down four of its five air stations on Oahu. The Air Force was preparing to send its 81st Fighter Wing back to the West Coast, leaving Pearl Harbor's air defense to Hawaii's Air National Guard and its 25 overage F47 Thunderbolts. The Army had cut its garrison forces from 9,000 men to 6,900. By summer, the onetime bastion...
...Abrogation of "traitorous" treaties, such as the one granting the U. S. right to base naval forces at Tsingtao...
...Tsingtao, China...
...Lower Price? The Communist terms included: punishment of "war criminals"; uprooting of "traditional institutions" accepted by the Kuomintang; abrogation of "traitorous" treaties (one consistently attacked in Communist propaganda gives the U.S. the right to base naval forces at Tsingtao); convocation of a Political Consultative Conference . . . "to take over all power from the Kuomintang reactionary government"; and reorganization of Chinese armies...