Word: changsha
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...points on which I was jailed by the Japanese police last year was a story on the use of gas by their troops at the first battle of Changsha [1939]. The Japanese were trapped and, in their haste to retreat, used some gas, but buried most of the cylinders, which the Chinese captured...
...Japanese militarists thought, perhaps, they were far away from foreign eyes, but a number of foreign military attaches and correspondents went to Changsha. There they were shown the captured materials...
China had just passed through six of the most active weeks since the fall of Hankow in 1938. The Japanese had withdrawn troops from Ichang, lunged at Chinese-held Changsha and seized it, only to be driven out. The Chinese, in turn, had smashed at Japanese-held Ichang and held that city for three days; then they, too, had been driven out. The two campaigns balanced. They proved that the Japanese could not withdraw troops from extended outposts without jeopardizing them, could hold no new positions without reinforcements. They proved that without artillery the Chinese had no hope of putting...
...drive in North China. Crossing the muddy Yellow River, a three-year-old barrier to Japanese advance, it seized the strategic rail center of Chengchow. If the Japanese could consolidate and drive from Chengchow west along the railway toward Sian, their achievement would be greater than the conquest of Changsha...