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The Fall of Peiping
Roth, Andrew | January 29, 1949 issue

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On Saturday night the lights came on again in Peiping, showing that the city had passed from war to peace. The Communists have taken it virtually undamaged, and this ancient intellectual and cultural center of all China will probably become their capital. For over a year Peiping had been a Nationalist island in a sea of Communist-held territory. For forty days it had been besieged. On December 14 Communist troops moved to within a mile of the old walls and cut all overland connections, including the road to the nearby port of Tientsin. After their capture of the main airport the city was dependent on two perilously small new airfields within the walls.

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PEACE; COMMUNISM; COMMUNISTS; CHINESE cabbage; AIRPORTS; CHINA
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