Word: hangchow
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...been slightly reduced by withdrawals to the north. But the enemy still held the basins of the Yellow and Yangtze rivers, the mouth of the West River, and most of the great ports fronting on the China seas-Canton, Hong Kong, Amoy,'Swatow and Hangchow-around to Shanghai and the Yellow...
...Chinese still controlled most of the coast south from Hangchow Bay. Last fortnight they enlarged their holdings when Chinese troops recaptured the coastal cities of Yamhsien and Limchow, taken by the Japanese last November. Another force reoccupied Siapu on the Fukien coast...
...armies, but to scorch Free Chinese earth, as in the Lake District. There are also appeals to the future: whereas the Allies have promised to give up extraterritoriality after the war, Tojo's government announced that on March 30 Japan would give up concessions in Amoy, Hankow, Soochow, Hangchow, Tientsin...
...Japan's puppet premier of the Nanking Government. During the Sung dynasty (10th to 13th Centuries) a similar kneeling statue was erected to Ch'in Kuei, China's Benedict Arnold, a cast-iron image that for centuries was spat upon and defiled by the populace in Hangchow. To the Chinese Wang is now in his proper niche...
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...