Word: hangchow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weeks during the spring and early summer Japanese armies had pushed along the Hangchow-Nanchang Railway. Their two great objectives had been: 1) a safe supply line by land all the way from Shanghai to their Indo-China bases; 2) destruction of air bases from which U.S. planes could bomb Tokyo. They were near to success when, instead of delivering the last killing blow, they faltered. Last week came reports of their slow withdrawal before desperate Chinese resistance...
Chinese had wrested back 135 miles of the Hangchow-Nanchang Railway, after a two weeks' siege occupied Linchwan. The Japanese burned and destroyed as they slowly retreated, as though they never expected to be back in that country...
Last fortnight the Japs took the last Chinese gap in one section of this route (Hangchow to Nanchang). Last week they reached for the railway between Nanchang and Chuchow, which in turn joins lines to Kwangsi, Indo-China, Siam and Malaya...
...China last week the Japanese held all but 50 of the 450 miles of railroad between Nanchang and Hangchow, and they strove mightily to close the last gap. Chinese counter-drives did not stop them. The Japanese had nearly completed the first step in gaining control of an overland route all the way from Shanghai to Indo-China, Siam, Burma and Malaya. That would remove a great load from their transports and warships. And it would bring China perilously close to defeat...
...Eastern Front below Shanghai in Chekiang Province, the need of planes was desperate. There the Jap pounded, without regard for his losses, at Kinhwa on the Hangchow-Nanchang railroad. His attack always had the support of plenty of dive-bombers. For a while the Chinese held, but in the end it was the old story...