General Wang Yao-wu, governor of Shantung, had more than the Reds to worry about. A fortnight ago he fired a proclamation: no more marriages for his troops.
The general's chief targets were women refugees in his beleagured capital city of Tsinan who were "choosing marriage as their way out." Men with families, he noted, had little fighting spirit. Worst of all, proclaimed the general, "The Reds have been sending girl spies over, utilizing carnal looks to lure military and government officials into matrimony, in order to obtain military information and endanger lives."
General Wang had considerable supporting evidence. U.S. flyers who transported Nationalist...
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