Word: guerilla
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Japanese G. H. Q. at Shanghai admitted Chinese guerilla forces had retaken several towns just north of Nanking. This week in Tokyo a deputy asked Premier Prince Konoye if Japan is reasonably sure to have won the war before 1940, when she is to be host to the Olympics. "I am unable to say definitely," hedged the Premier. "We must plan for the worst. The immediate problem is to deliver a final blow to China and end the leadership of Chiang Kai-shek...
Accustoming themselves to the guerilla tactics expected in their game with Davenport College of Yale on Friday, the Adams hoopsters last night trounced the Necco Candy Kids, local factory five...
...Large Japanese forces were then found to be sweeping around their flank some distance inland, and neutral experts debated whether the 400,000 would be trapped, routed, or might succeed in withdrawing in good order. Although the Japanese flanking movement came mostly down along the Peiping-Hankow Railway, Chinese guerilla troops recaptured last week a 75-mile section of that railway in territory nominally "conquered" by Japan. Gloomy Chinese blew up the longest steel bridge in China to keep Japanese from crossing the Yellow River at Chengchow. In Shansi Province, to the West, Japanese columns were reportedly closing...
...Japanese advance which rolled down through Shantung intending to capture Suchow (TIME, Jan. 17) was badly behind schedule last week and Chinese guerilla warfare was getting into its stride, in both north and central China. Large guerilla forces reportedly recaptured Hoh-sien, some 35 miles up the Yangtze from Nanking, surrounded Tsining in Shantung...
Once a war gets into the guerilla stage accurate coverage becomes impossible, and correspondents settled down for a long siege of guessing. They were certain that 1,000,000 rifles had not just been passed out among the Chinese peasantry, an impossible fantasy which Chinese newsorgans gravely reported as a fact. Another wildly absurd claim which appeared in the Chinese press was that a 2,500-mile railroad between China and Soviet Russia would be completed within three months...