Word: changsha
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...like a blotter for the language, and soon he was reading both newspapers and classics. His early changes of post gave him a habit of restlessness from which he has never relaxed: from Peking to bleak Mukden, Russified Harbin, hilly Hankow, busy Shanghai, river-girt Chungking, remote Changsha...
Last week the lamb rose up and bit the wolf. Having been chased hurry-scurry from Kiangsi Province right to the suburbs of Changsha, Hunan, the Chinese turned around and, with a fury they have never shown before, lashed the Japanese back and back. This week a Japanese spokesman in Shanghai had to admit that his country's forces had returned to positions they occupied when the drive started...
Chinese strategy was superb. As they fell back toward Changsha, leading the Japanese to believe that they were still following the same old no-frontal-attack theories, the Chinese destroyed every rail line, every road. The Japanese blithely advanced over this torn-up area until they were in the worst military position known to man: on a thin front without communications behind. That was when the Chinese struck. The Japanese had nothing...
With an air arm knocking the Chinese Army on top of the head while infantry dealt uppercut after uppercut, the Japanese went ahead fast-along the corridor into Hunan from Kiangsi, to within 20 miles of Changsha. At week's end Chinese Government officials said that the city, being unimportant strategically, would soon be abandoned. At one time, said Japanese reports, the Chinese front broke and fled so hysterically that they ran bang into their own advancing reinforcements, milling like frightened lambs. Calmly the Japanese strafed and bombed the whole bloody tangle. Fortnight's casualties, according to Japanese...
...Wang Ching-wei as "reason" for the renewed offensive. Chinese officials warned their own people, and Japanese officials admitted, that the new pressure was intended to intimidate, discourage, force the populace of South China into endorsement of peace under Puppet-elect Wang. But as the Chinese claimed defense of Changsha was stiffening, Japanese admitted that the creation of Wang's Super-Puppetry had been postponed from mid-October to mid-November...