DANGER ZONES: 150,000 Big Noses

When the first Russians entered China long ago, the button-nosed Chinese dubbed them to, pi-tze, or Big Noses. Last week, a count of the Big Noses in Red China totaled more than 150,000 soldiers and civilians.

The Russian advance into China takes this pattern:

¶I In the Port Arthur-Dairen area of Manchuria, where Yalta's secret deal gave Joseph Stalin a naval base and port privileges, the Russians have their 3gth army (two infantry, one armored, one artillery, one antiaircraft and two "aviation" divisions), numbering 60,000.

¶ Along Manchuria's railways, linking Port Arthur with Mukden,...

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