Word: chapei
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three weeks later Japanese bombs were falling on the flimsy wooden hovels of Chapei, a section of Shanghai and 24,000 Chinese were killed or wounded in the ensuing holocaust. Once again Colonel Stimson tried to rally Britain by suggesting that the Nine-Power Treaty, guaranteeing the territorial integrity of China, which Japan had signed at Washington in 1922, be invoked. Once again Sir John Simon turned his back. The Japanese, undisturbed, made mince meat of the heroic Chinese 19th Route Army...
...years he pursued a policy of buying off and placating the Japanese. He failed to stand in their way in 1931, when they grabbed at Manchuria. He failed to back up the courageous Chinese Nineteenth Route Army when it fought against Japanese invaders of the Chapei district of Shanghai in 1932. He let the northern province of Jehol fall into Japanese hands...
...only to the Emperor direct, this peculiar setup often leading to excessive maladjustment between the fighting services. Last week they slugged together to bend back the Chinese line in the country zone outside Shanghai so sharply that it would be impossible for Chinese forces to continue to hold Chapei in the urban zone (see map, p. 19). Tazang was the town at which the Japanese decided to push big, after bombing and shelling it for nearly a month, and last week their assault was highly mechanized...
...rural battle line bent back, Chinese General Sun Yuan-liang, seeing it had become impossible to hold Chapei, ordered what remained of this heavily bombed and shelled Chinese shambles to be set afire. Hurling sulphur and other incendiary materials, Chinese firebugs heroically raised an immense pall of smoke over Chapei beneath which the Chinese defenders executed in the night what foreign military experts in Shanghai called one of the most orderly and efficient retreats ever made in Oriental warfare. Stimulating to morale throughout China was the staying behind in a Chapei warehouse of 500 Chinese troops of "Chiang...
...Republic and the Chinese Revolutionary Army!" ordered General Sun in a message to the defenders of the Chinese Alamo. "I and your comrades salute you! Although, in accordance with orders, I have led my other men to new defense lines my spirit and my heart are with you in Chapei...