Victory

Everywhere the Nationalist armies smashed ahead. In the biggest week of Government successes since the undeclared civil war began, all but a few miles of China's strategic railroad lines were free of Communist troops. Between the Communists' Inner Mongolia base at Kalgan, and their lair at Yenan, the fall of Tatung and Fengcheng enabled Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's forces to drive a battering wedge (see map). Another Government army closed in on Kalgan from Jehol.

Hwaiyin (southeast of Kaifeng) also fell to Government forces, while Harbin was menaced by General Tu Li-ming's advancing troops, who were spoiling for a fight in Manchuria "before the snow flies." Along the border of Russian-occupied Korea, Government soldiers were preparing a drive on Antung, "funnel for delivery of foreign [i.e., Russian] supplies to the Communists."

Historical Crossroads. In Nanking, behind the grey brick walls of Communist headquarters, gloom thickened. Communist Negotiator Chou En-lai defiantly walked out on "senseless" negotiations with peace emissary Dr. Leighton Stuart, and accused the U.S. of "complicity" with the Chinese Government in fanning the civil war. He flatly rejected a renewed Government offer to participate in the government and in the Chinese National Assembly scheduled for November. Said Information Minister Peng Hsueh-pei: "The Communist Party is now standing at a historical crossroads. . . . Do the Communists want to continue their attempts to seize political power by armed force? If so, they will prolong bloodshed and create chaos. . . ."

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