Word: chungkingers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Desperately the Chinese tried to stem the advance. Skillfully General Hsueh Yo thinned his troops out in flanking columns, hoping to round the Japanese end. But the Japanese spearheads pushed on. Their bombers pounded the city mercilessly. Chungking admitted that some Japanese had entered the city, but insisted they had...
If the Japanese had taken Changsha, they had scored their first important victory in China since Ichang fell in June, 1940. Changsha was the focal point of all communications feeding the central front south of the Yangtze. Into Changsha for redistribution poured men and arms from Chungking, gasoline and supplies...
In China, the internal equalization of surplus and deficit areas has been upset by war. In Chungking, which formerly drew its rice from battle-pocked Hunan via the Yangtze, black-market prices of rice were 30 times pre-war prices last spring. Last year, to make matters worse, Szechwan, Chiang...
Certainly not from China. The Japanese intention about remaining in China permanently is as clear as Yellow River mud. Prince Konoye said in March 1938: "We will never give up an inch of the territories already occupied." Prince Konoye said in July 1938: "Japan does not want an inch of...
Doubtless there were worse bombings yet in store for Chungking. But to China 1943 is barely tomorrow.