Word: chuhsien
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Even if his story were true, his actions in southeast China had all the earmarks of a desperate gamble: that the United Nations would stick to their decision to concentrate their all on Germany, divert little strength to the China battlefield. For the Jap had given up (at Chuhsien and Lishui) airdromes from which airpower could strike at his industries and military establishments at home and on Formosa. He was about to lose another bombing base at Kinhwa. Whatever he was preparing for next, he knew that these bases were pistols pointed at the heart of his national life...
...Japanese-held objectives, ground forces of the Chinese took two pearls of potentially great price. They pushed the enemy back through Chekiang Province and retook two of the finest military airdromes in China; one at Lishui, only 700 miles from the great naval base at Nagasaki; another at Chuhsien, only a few bomber steps farther. China knew what could be done to Japan from there...
...things continued to go badly. Last week the Chinese lost Chuhsien, where there was a huge airfield. This week they lost Yushan, where there was another. The Japanese advanced, bombing as they came...
...Ichang, in October 1941. On May 26, the Japanese forced a crossing of the Singang River near Kienteh by sending planes ahead to shower gas bombs on the defenders. A fortnight ago the Japanese took Kinhwa with the help of gas, and last week repeated the performance at Chuhsien, 45 miles southwest of Kinhwa...
Last week bombers from Jap bases in China raided the airdromes at Lishui and Chuhsien. Afterward the Japanese said" that U.S. technicians had lengthened the runways, otherwise improved Lishui and Chuhsien in preparation for the arrival of U.S. bombers...