Word: chengchow
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...Chungking's celebration was soon ended. The Japanese Army, stung by its Central China defeat, suddenly uncorked a 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...
...murky floodwaters around the Yellow River, to the north of the Yangtze, have prevented the Japanese from making a widespread onslaught on Hankow but by last week the waters had subsided enough to allow them to set their troops in motion on a 400-mile line, extending from Chengchow on the Yellow River to Teian, 45 miles south of the Yangtze...
...Japanese, who had been pushing along the railroad toward Chengchow, hoping to make it a base for their southerly drive to Hankow, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's provisional capital, the flood was a severe setback. Tokyo papers at once accused the devilish Chinese of having sprung the dikes as a strategic military move. "An atrocity," cried Damei, "by barbarian Chinese. . . . The Japanese are making frantic efforts to check the flow and to rescue the Chinese caught in the flood area, at the same time repulsing Chinese attacks...
...main battle front at Chengchow, 300 miles on a direct rail line north of Hankow, the Japanese forces last week made only small gains. Retreating Chinese had cut dykes on the Yellow River north of the city and the saffron waters of "China's Sorrow" poured over the low-lying, sandy ground outside Cheng-chow, bogged down Japan's mechanized advance...
Some 200,000 of China's central army's best-equipped troops backed slowly westward along the railway all week, allowing Lanfeng and Kaifeng to fall, finally holed up in Chengchow, and at week's end Japanese bombers hammered at the city. Japanese shock troops pressed at its sides. Capture of Chengchow would enable the Japanese to right-angle down 300 miles of railway to Hankow. Only serious obstacle in their path will be the Chinese defense fortifications in the southern Honan mountains near Sinyang. Meanwhile, two Japanese forces pushing from the Nanking area to Hankow...