Word: cantonment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...explanation: "They handcuffed themselves.") Neutral correspondents estimate at about 175,000 the number of Chinese second grade troops killed at Shanghai, have reported that although some few of the Generalissimo's best troops saw action and gave a good account of themselves the bulk of them withdrew to Canton, thence to Hankow and last week to the West...
...Japanese of 1938, for the same reason that they have been unbeatable as far back as history goes. The Chinese people have biologically absorbed and turned into "Chinese" all their many conquerors, of whom the last were the Manchus. Last week Newspundit Walter Lippmann concluded from the fall of Canton and Hankow that "Japan has won the war." but neither Chinese nor Japanese agreed with newsy Occidental efforts to anticipate the ponderous course of Oriental history...
...Generalissimo's manifesto: "We were prepared for this [i.e. the fall of Hankow, Canton and before that Shanghai, North China and Manchukuo]. For years we have concentrated on development of West China, where bases for operations are established and where we will prolong resistance until victory is ours. We hope to lure the enemy further inland. The farther they come the sooner victory will be ours...
...Soviet Union was supplying China with most of her war planes and some artillery, but that China depended for her small arms, machine guns and ammunition mainly on what she was able to buy in Europe. Most of this landed at British Hong Kong, was shipped via the Canton-Hankow railway, both ends of which are now in Japanese hands. The rest came via French Indo-China, and Tokyo last week demanded that Paris stop that (see below...
...Belief. The real and the imaginary have always been mixed in Malraux's novels. His first, The Conquerors, pictured revolution in Canton, followed the course of actual events, included real characters like Revolutionist Michael Borodin, Mao Tse-tung, head of the Chinese Soviets...