Word: chengteh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Japanese goal, announced as an incentive, to Japanese valor by the General Staff, had been to capture Chengteh. the capital of Jehol, by March 10-anniversary of the capture of Mukden during the Russo-Japanese War which cost 97,000 Russian lives, 45,000 Japanese. Actually last week Jehol fell March 4. The relay race had been won in eleven days by Japanese brigades which advanced further than from Portland. Me. to Manhattan, sprinting more than 50 mi. on each of the last three days-about as fast as any modern army can climb mountain passes in the teeth...
...Governor Tang. "I don't even know where my troops are." Correspondents left him slumped in his great chair, staring vacantly out the window at some deer which nibbled unconcerned in the former deer park of the last Chinese Emperor. That night the distracted War Lord fled from Chengteh to no man knew where...
Next morning 3,000 Chinese soldiers with rifles and machine guns deployed as though to defend Chengteh. Through this Chinese force, which fired not a shot, dashed 128 Japanese, the extreme advance guard of Major General Tadashi Kawahara's 16th Infantry Brigade which, at 10 a.m., won the relay race and Japanese immortality...
...neither unarmed nor unclothed. His rifle, his cotton uniform stuffed with wadding and his tough constitution, inured to sub-zero winters, should make him no mean match in freezing Jehol for men from Japan's warm islands. Last week Japan's three-barbed offensive, closing in on Chengteh, the capital of Jehol, from Kailu, Chinchow and Suichung, advanced through snows as much as a foot deep, braved blizzards which reduced visibility at times to nil, plunged on with thermometers so low that Japanese machine guns occasionally jammed, frozen tight...
...some reason largely composed of the Empire's most cold-hardened troops, soldiers from Hokkaido, northmost major island of Japan. To reach Lingyuan they would have to take two mountain passes of great natural strategic strength. Reputedly these passes were held by picked troops sent down from Chengteh by the Governor of Jehol, redoubtable Tang Yulin (see col. 1) and up from China proper by "Young Marshal" Chang Hsueh-liang of Peiping...