Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...best aide on whom rests much of the responsibility for the success of this campaign of attrition is China's No. 1 Guerrilla Fighter, modest, crinkly-eyed Chu Teh, Commander of the 8th Route (former Communist) Army. Once hunted by the Generalissimo, with a price of $100,000 on his bullet-shaped head, while Chiang Kai-shek carried on his ten years of futile war against the Communists, Chu Teh now has under him a force of about 150,000 fervent Communist soldiers, another 300,000 embattled farmers, operating behind the Japanese front lines in Shansi and Shantung provinces...
...Guerrilla Warfare China's Defense...
...Guerrilla warfare carried on against the invaders by the people, he stated, will be China's defense rather than any organized armies. The Chinese people will resist until Japan is no longer able to carry on the war because of the drain on her treasury...
...Favorite guerrilla tale is that of 24 Chinese who, caught in Pingchüan when the Japanese entered the city, donned the blood-stained uniforms of dead Japanese, walked out of the city unmolested. This trick sometimes boomerangs. Recently 8th Route Army General Lin Piao, regarded as the ablest Chinese strategist now in the field, returned from a raid with 600 of his men who were dressed as Japanese, mounted on Japanese horses. Their own guerrillas ambushed them, wounded a number, including General Lin, before their identity was established...
Three weeks ago Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, impressed by the guerrilla successes, announced a policy of nationwide hit-&-run attacks for the armed forces under his control. This week the Chinese Government at Chungking, headed by President Lin Sen, whose relationship to the Generalissimo corresponds to that of Soviet Russia's President Kalinin to Dictator Stalin, gave to Chinese guerrilla leaders (many of whom are civilians and thus, theoretically, not under army orders) enlarged powers to carry on their attacks behind the Japanese lines. That this order was hardly necessary was apparent from an admission by the official spokesman...