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Yet Changchun's situation was not desperate. Some supplies could still come in by air. Some of the citizenry were even running a Changchun Mobilization Committee to bolster the morale of General Tu's troops. The committee supplied candy and cigarets, comforted the wounded, set up tea stalls for the men, bought food for army horses.
Canceled Celebrations. Changchun had seen five armies since V-J day: first the Japanese, then the Russians to toss out the Japs, then the Chinese Nationalists, then (briefly) the Communists, finally General Tu and the Nationalists again. Changchun was getting a little tired of the fortunes of war. On one day last week fell the anniversary of the Communists' withdrawal from Changchun after their short 1946 occupancy. Reported Shanghai's Shun Pao: "It passed silently in a tense atmosphere. The prescheduled celebrations were given up. . . ."