Word: chungkingers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
To make good the loss of salt resources in the coastal provinces, the Chungking Government has stepped up production from the ancient salt wells of inland Szechwan. Free China had little iron or steel to spare for this vital industry. Her engineers turned to the ways and the tools of...
Anxiety lay dark and heavy over restless Chungking: what seemed at first a minor foraging raid by the Japs had grown to a major offensive and a staggering calamity for weary China. Chungking admitted that the enemy had:
Allied observers and Japan's civilians could only speculate on the rest: was Koga killed in the U.S. air and naval raids on Truk and Palau on March 29? Was he intercepted by U.S. fighters en route to some Pacific base? Or did he, as Chungking suggested, honorably disembowel...
What Can China Do? The Chinese fell back rapidly. Chungking admitted retreat. Tokyo claimed that ten Chinese divisions had been trapped. Busy towns fell one after another. Loyang, where the emperors of the Chou dynasty held court seven centuries before Christ, was ablaze. At any moment the Japanese wedge, if...
This week Chungking gloomily predicted that once the Peiping-Hankow line was in use, a new drive would be launched to seize the stretch from Hankow to Canton. The day that line is captured-and repaired-Japan will be able to rush men and supplies more freely than ever before...