“one of my soldiers can handle three Communist soldiers”

—  Ma Hongkui

China on the eve of Communist takeover, A. Doak Barnett, 1968, Praeger, 194, 2010-06-28 http://books.google.com/books?id=kt0gAAAAIAAJ&q=ma+hung-k'uei&dq=ma+hung-k'uei&hl=en&ei=GqCqTJ3FD4GC8gb66-XXBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAA,

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