Word: guerilla
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...optimistic, said their best troops had withdrawn, claimed recapture of two towns, announced that they were engaged upon a little encircling themselves. The entire length of the 630-mile Tientsin-Pukow Railway is now nominally under Japanese control, although the Japanese will have to operate it against ceaseless Chinese guerilla attacks. For Japan's political administrators in China the victory means that Chinese puppets of Japanese-controlled Nanking and Peking can at last be united under one big puppet Government...
...northern front, rain continued to bog down all large-scale attacks. Bands from the Leftist "Lost Battalion," entrenched and virtually surrounded in the Pyrenees south of Lourdes, France, sallied forth in guerilla attacks, made no appreciable gains. As further encouragement to Rightist Franco the Vatican, following 18 months of semi-official recognition of his Government, this week granted him full diplomatic recognition...
Coordinated with the Chinese offensive was a far-flung guerilla warfare rivaling any irregular fighting for scope and intensity yet experienced in modern times. No part of presumably conquered Chinese territory seemed to be free from the guerillas. The Nanking-Shanghai area, well within Japanese lines, was declared unsafe. At Taiping, between Nanking and Wuhu, Chinese bands infiltrated into the city and fought the small Japanese garrison in the streets. Just north of Shanghai, almost due east of Nanking, at Tungchow, the none-too-modest Japanese communiques claimed their only major success of the week-the de-feat...
...Japanese "grand push," launched ten weeks ago to capture the Chinese "Hindenburg Line" and the strategic Lung-hai Railway, was still stalled last week on the banks of the Grand Canal in southern Shantung Province, 35 miles northeast of Suchow. Fast-striking Chinese guerilla units, employing shifting flank attacks, last week struck at all sides of the Japanese forces, spread out in a rough quadrangle in the Shantung area. Towns were taken, then recaptured as neither side made an effort to hold positions for long. Chinese guerillas tore up sections along 40 miles of the Tientsin-Pukow railway...
...month-long resistance by the ill-equipped Chinese armies ranks as a high-spot of the entire war. Chief factor in their success has been the employment of a new strategy-instead of retreating en masse before a Japanese front attack, the Chinese now split up into large-sized guerilla contingents, harass the Japanese at widely scattered points along the front. The Japanese have been forced to fan out their estimated 100,000 men in their Yellow River force along a 450-mile front, have been unable to assemble a force large enough for a mass crossing of the river...