Word: chihkiang
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...Contract. All around the vast perimeter of the territories about to be delivered from Japanese oppression, smaller dramas were being acted out. In Manchuria a Japanese officer told the Russians that "unconditional surrender" was not to be found in the Japanese vocabulary. In China, the delegate to Chihkiang euphemistically was careful not to use the expression, but called it "the contract ending this...
Back to Nanking. The big moment came at Chihkiang, a sun-baked Allied air base in Central China. A Japanese plane circled, then glided to a bumpy landing. Chinese officers waited...
...landing, abandoned the great port of Foochow. The high command announced a new Chinese offensive in the south, with the capture of Hochih, a heavily fortified rail town guarding Japan's supply route to Indo-China. And Chungking was still savoring its victory in the campaign for Chihkiang (TIME...
...methods worked well, as the U.S. officers who suggested them had guessed they would. The Japanese who had marched from Packing toward Chihkiang were marching back as fast as their stubby legs would carry them. And hot on their heels was irate General Wang...
Even in tragic China the war picture grew brighter for the moment. Japanese commanders, their communications harassed by locomotive-busting Fourteenth Air Force pilots, had been sweeping aside light, ill-armed Chinese troops to smash the U.S. air bases one by one. But last week they tried for Chihkiang, 300 miles east of Chungking, and ran into something new and hard...