Word: chiangs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile, last week, Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, although continuing to evacuate Hankow and evidently believing he cannot defend it much longer, launched a Chinese offensive at the Japanese in boggy, half-flooded, malarial country near Kiukiang, 135 miles down the Yangtze River below Hankow. Even skeptical foreign observers were inclined to take at face value last week the Chinese claim that this desperate counteroffensive threw the Japanese back for heavy losses on the whole width of a 45-mile salient...
...Changkufeng Hill. Moscow claimed that the Japanese officers on the spot had refused to sign even a provisional map until they received further orders from Tokyo. Japanese papers fed the public with whoppers about how "our soldiers have been generously feeding the starving Soviet troops," charged that Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek had been in radio communication with Soviet Far Eastern Army Marshal Vasily Bluecher, begging him to restart the Russo-Japanese war as the only means of diverting the Japanese from capturing Hankow...
...Army was at its hottest fortnight ago, Japanese aviators bombed Chinese cities only halfheartedly. Last week they redoubled their bombing zeal over the triplet Wuhan cities (Hanyang, Wuchang, Hankow), killed at least 1,000 people, damaged five U. S. mission properties. With the final battle for Hankow approaching, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek removed as much factory machinery as possible and shipped it upriver with Hankow's 500,000 fleeing civilians...
...Japanese drive against Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek last week reached a point only 95 miles down the Yangtze from his headquarters at Hankow. There the Japanese were hampered chiefly by a few bursted dikes ("Dynamited by the Chinese!" snarled the enraged invaders...
...Chinese artillery has surprised the Japanese by its inaccuracy. Frail and thinly armored Japanese river gunboats had apparently been able to support the attackers. In Hankow, 135 miles above Kiukiang. the flight of the whole civilian population into the interior was ordered and organized last week by Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. Most Government clerks and records had already been sent 650 miles further up river to Chungking. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Chung-hui gave a farewell party to the press before he departed, followed by the envoys of the Great Powers. In most urgent terms U. S. Ambassador Nelson...