Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...China thus far "conquered"' by the Japanese, hundreds of thousands of embattled Chinese peasants keep up today an endless sniping resistance to their conquerors. The daring and resourceful Chinese who are trying to thwart and exhaust the Japanese in this most extensive of modern history's guerrilla campaigns have made some of the most exciting stories of the war. By the nature of the fighting, however, they make them in the dark...
...telephone and wireless equipment, much of it filched from the Japanese. At their general headquarters, where a "general staff" of young officers, lent by the 8th Route (former Communist) Army, veteran Manchurian fighters and college students plan widespread attacks, the Associated Pressman discovered their well-thumbed textbook on guerrilla warfare: a translation of The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, by the late famed Lieut.-Colonel T. E. Lawrence of Arabia...
...sides have tried masquerading in uniforms of the other side to pull off surprise attacks, but the Chinese claim it is too easy to spot a Japanese in Chinese uniform because the Japanese have a characteristic swaggering shuffle acquired in childhood as a result of wearing wooden sandals. Every guerrilla headquarters has at least 100 Japanese uniforms, complete with helmets and leather boots...
...Generalissimo has always tried to avoid costly positional battles with the overpowering, mechanized Japanese forces. At the same time his military advisers have scorned the opposite strategy, guerrilla warfare, as tactics fit only for the Eighth Route (former Communist) Army fighters. Neutral observers report, however, that the Japanese have been slain four to one in their skirmishes with the Communists. Last week, after retreating from the Japanese for 16 months, leaving them sprawling toward the interior on all China's vital communication lines, Chiang publicly proclaimed a policy of large-scale guerrilla, hit-&-run attacks...
...present war had lasted up to this week 480 days. Some 200,000,000 of the 400,000,000 Chinese people have passed under even nominal Japanese control, and in every "conquered" Chinese province guerrilla resistance continues. All the greatest Chinese cities are now in Japanese hands. Japan holds seven of the principal gateways to China, is attempting to profit from the trade which still flows through these gates. At latest dispatches, however, not a single nationally known Chinese had become a Japanese puppet ruler, excepting the "Emperor of Manchukuo"-which is not in China proper. There was still...