Word: chahar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Japanese had a tingling sensation in their small, tidy bones. It said to them that the time had come to pulverize their great neighbor, to nip off the five wealthy Chinese northern provinces of Shantung, Hopei, Shansi, Suiyuan, Chahar...
Japanese, pursuing their second objective of cutting off China from receiving Soviet supplies via Outer and Inner Mongolia, captured last week Kweisui, the capital of Suiyuan. This province is the third in Inner Mongolia, Japan having taken Jehol in 1933 and northern Chahar in 1935, but although Suiyuan's capital fell last week the entire province was by no means conquered, the Soviet link...
Stab at Suiyuan. Japan's Kwantung Army, recent conquerors of Chahar Province, swung furiously westward last week in efforts to break through into Inner Mongolia and cut off China from Soviet-dominated Outer Mongolia whence supplies are streaming to aid Nanking. No correspondent was reported within hundreds of miles of this most vital offensive, watched with cat-like concern by Tokyo, but the Japanese claimed they had broken through Chinese defenses on the frontier of Suiyuan, seized strategic rail junctions...
Determined to consolidate each bit of North China as they nibble it off, the efficient Japanese last week set up the "South Chahar Autonomous Government," with headquarters at Kalgan. This town, capital of Chahar Province, had been annexed by Japan eleven days before (TIME, Sept. 6), is on the Peiping-Suiyuan rail-road that sweeps through Nankow Pass, northern key to the fat, fertile plains that loop round the Shantung Peninsula. With Kalgan and the Nankow Pass already in their hands, the Japanese had only to capture the stretch of railroad from Kalgan to Suiyuan to find themselves with...
...Kalgan, South Chahar's "complete independence" from China was declared by "100 influential persons," headed by bland, pigtailed, 36-year-old Prince Te, a pro-Japanese Mongolian, long head of the "Inner Mongolia for Inner Mongolians" movement (TIME, Oct. 23, 1933, et seq.). It was Prince Te with his Mongolian levies who helped the Japanese to take Kalgan. The highest position in Japan's latest puppet state was to be his reward...