Officers and men of General Fu Tso-yi's northwest command wore the same unadorned uniforms, ate the same plain food and thought of themselves as simply the best troops in China. They called themselves "Ho Tao Wawa" (River Bend Babies) because they had trained in the bitter country above the great bend of the Yellow River. Under able, plain General Fu (TIME, Dec. 15) they were doing some of China's most effective fighting against the Chinese Communists last week.
Crumbling Front. But there were just not enough River Bend Babies, or any other Nationalist troops of similar training, morale and...
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