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WHY

ONSISTENT violation of two old rules of warfare

by the Chinese Nationalist strategists has led to China's present' military disaster, according to a con- sensus of military experts.

First, Chinng Kai-shek's generals have ignored the military maxim that wars can't be won with defensive tactics.

Second, they have neglected the factor of troop morale. It strong taken soldiers with a will to win to make successful armies.

On the other hand, the Com- munist generals have concen- trated on maintaining good morale while they have cleverly

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Since VJ-Day the pattern of the Chinese war has been some- thing like this:

Nationalist troops were sent out to capture the citles and supply lines, while completely ignoring the farms and rural arcas. It WAS done with no opposition and troops were Com- garrisoned in the cities. munist troops hid .or tem- porarily disbanded.

Raiding Actions

CHIANG LOST THE WAR

BY DOUGLAS LARSEN

Nationalist Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, shown here inspecting troops, had his best military year in 1940. Since then, the tide of battle had always been against him.

own terms.

RADIO ROUND-UP BEHIND

THE IRON CURTAIN

Moscow is disappointed with Nellie

By GEORGE CAMPEY

RUSSIAN radio listeners have

been hearing, the Now Year · launched by way of Bob and Nellie Clark, Who are tho | Clarks? They are described as "a typical English family." Nellie is the daughter of the household, Bob ber brother.

Through the Clarks, the BBC, on their overseas service, are trying to teach the Russians English. The family's daily activities form the basis of lessons put out from this coun- try.

These lessons are published be- forehand in Britansky Soyuznik. COI paper published In Moscow, former- ly known as British Ally. ;

Last episode in the Clark sago was "Seeing the Now Year. in."

But before it was due to

bo

had taken most of the cities deep in northern Manchuria. And he had just been given broadcast it came under hot "fre over a million dollars' worth from Moscow Radio... .... of surplus U.S. arms left on the Pacific Islands,

It seems that Nellie Clark had a New Year resolution: to get up half an hour earlier every morning and

During the temporary Na-walk to the office instead of taking tionalist - Communist truce a bus which just preceded Chiang's 'Moscow was interested in this. most successful advances, the Walking was good for anybody. But Red generala successfully weld-the Soviet reader and listener, sald commentator, el together a strong army of Moscow's anonymous

that it was about one million mon. While would be surprised

necessary for Nelllo to zavo bur Nationalist troops were being fares. settled in the cities, Red troops "Is the Clark family so poor?" were receiving intensive train he asked. "What a strange thing ing. Soviet arma left behind to take into consideration! It when Russian troops were sounds u niggling, cheese-paring

kind of resolution." pulled out of Manchuria gave the Communist soldiers plenty of excellent equipment.

-

Cigarettes, too! -

Bob Clark 'also had a to smoke only instead of 20.

resolution:

10 cigarettes a day

After June 1946, the tide of battle turned against Chinng's forces. The heckling of the cities, the constant cutting of supply lines, the falling morale of troops quartered for end- Sald the commentator about this: less months in lonely cities did the "Well, the price of cigarettes being trick. Chlang's generals continued what it is, that's a New Year' re- to ignore the rural areas, never dissolution that will probably be kept covered how to start an offensive longer than most." action and disregarded the troop marnie factor

scattered

During the ensuing two and 1 half years, Chiang's generals made other serious mistakes. Instead of keeping the American-trained slowly starved in the isolated given a chance to advance in divisions intact, they were broken cities, The Red generals rank and given a share of the up into small units and

among the various other divisions. fought all their battles on their land they helped to capture. The American-trained officers were

This is a cold, impartial relleved of high commands

supplanted COMMUNIST offensives began

military anaylsis of the China were

by after Chiang's troops were While insisting on maintain- war, the experts claim, and has generals, comfortably settled in the cities. ing this constant weakening de- nothing to do with the political There were continuous, fence, Chiang's

generala ig philosophy behind the fighting. heckling raiding actions on the-nored the morale of their These-faults-were-reported-in-

to were given great detail cities and supply lines, usually troops. The men at night. When Nationalist scarcely any furlough time.

Nationalist

Neither Bob nor Nellie had any other resolutions. This moved the "Can't broadcaster to indignation:

better they find anything

thon that? Such resolutions have about the same span of life as the diary. that peters out at the end of the first month.

troops marched out to find them They were ill-fed and ill-paid generals by U.S. military ad- the Inept use of air power. The afforestation, building of reservoirs,

TC-

"There has been a terrible war," he added, "and the country in a oll and difficult economie position, but

BBC politician that Bob and Nellie of the

think of is saving bus fares and cutting down smoking, and the second of these is probably a caso Biggest Blunder of making a virtue of necessity.”

Then he contrasted this with the DIGGEST Nationalist blunder was New Year resolutions of the Soviet:

to Improving the harvest in arid speak of. Chiang's forces had up to glons. the Communist Most of them were forced into visers. But the reports were Communists had no alpowere next day,

apparently ignored.

500 good combat aeroplanes and soldiers were gone. At the service. When they occasional-

And he drew this picture of his Chiang Kai-shek's position many good pilots. But maintenance

prospects in the same time the lines supplying ly won a battle they were not

There WBB prac- was at its best in June 1946, was ignored, and the planes seldom own neighbours'

New Year: One was "waiting for the cities would be constantly rewarded.

spartment the spring to have her cut and kept closed as much as tically no such thing as an ad- according to the experts. His

decorated," another was "looking for possible.

serious shortage of aviation vance in rank. They received troops had 80 percent of the

some new furniture," a third was practically no training before arms lost by the defeated Japs. gasoline was made more acute by

"planning a thorough renovation While this was going on the they were sent Into action. He had 31 crack divisions, the poor use of what was available.

of her family's wardrobe.” Reds would live comfortably on On the other hand, Red American trained and equipped. Most of it was used to fly transport

"When we turn back to farms between raids and troops were carefully trained, He had about 275 divisions al- planes to the isolated cities, which

were hopelessly lost anyway, Proc. Clarks the impression is rather batiles, while Nationalist troops given long, periodic furloughs, together, of 2,800,000 men. He tically no petrol was allotted for sad one-or it would be if one real- pilot training. It meant that pilota y belloved that young people in. were rusty when they did get into Beltain were thinking of nothing: combat missions, and the fuel was better. further wasted.

White ill-fed, il-paid Nationalist. troops slowly, starved in isolated dites, well-disciplined Chinese *Communist troops like the ones abové got Intensiva training, long furloughs, and a share of the land they helped capture,

NANCY

Point of View

I

DON'T THINK

50

THIS WAY

он

OH, SLUGGO--

ISN'T THAT GREAT DANE BEAUTIFUL ?

HAS

got into the nir.

A

the

"The BBC notwithstanding, 000

'Peace comes first'

Advice of the American-trained ran't help belleving that they've got. Chinese Blers was ignored. Such more sense. inctles as saturation bombing of guerilla bands were tried. They were completely Ineffective. Lack of morale among maintenance crews, poor leadership and the gase- line shortage ruined the morale the pilots, the experts believe.

of

"Towards the end of the lesson- Nellie Clark proposes a toast to 1940 and joy to the family. Well, that's dplimistic but pretty vague.

Instead of trying to solve these problems, however, the Nationalist

"At the Soviet tables there, will strategists spent their lime trying be rather more definite foasts, to to buy more planes. Recently they the things that mean most to us

managed to buy 150 Mosquito

to our work, to the belter fo we bombers from the Canadians. But are striving for, and the one poor handling of the shipment of thing we most of all and that Bob these planes by the Chinese wreck and Nellie need just as much-and ed more than 50 of them

before that's peace. they were ever turned over to the Chinese Air Force.

to

"And although the compilers the BBC's lessons don't neom Impartial military experts are un-

thinks that pence is important willing to discuss the charges that enough to include, or perhaps it is corruption and graft flourished rather unfashionable, we are sure among Chiang's high officers. They that for Bob and Neills Clark, have confined their views to the for all the other Bobs and Nellies purely military aspect of the in the world, peaco is the dearest problem.

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