Word: hankow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been heavily bombed, are in Japanese hands. Shanghai, China's commercial centre, was taken four months after the outbreak at Peking; Nanking, capital of China, fell one month later. Chinese officials fled Nanking, designated Chunking, far in the interior, as the seat of their Government and set up Hankow as their de facto capital. Last week, Japanese warships were within 135 miles of this Yangtze River city and most ob servers agreed that it would be in Japanese hands before autumn frosts...
...fortnight by Chinese booms across the river at Matang and Matowchen, Japanese warships ploughed upriver, finally blasted Chinese defenders from Hukow. Capture of Hukow, lying at the top of China's second largest lake, Lake Poyang, gives the Japanese a jumping-off place for two drives on Hankow. One route leads down the navigable lake to Nanchang, main Chinese air base which was severely bombed last week, then across country to the vital Canton-Hankow rail-line. A more direct route lies straight up the Yangtze, although this means fighting along a stream well blocked with booms and flanked...
Capture of populous, prosperous Hankow will not mean the end of the war for China. Already unimportant Government bureaus have been moved upriver to Chungking and at Hankow the Foreign, Finance and Industry Ministries are poised to precede Chiang Kai-shek's military headquarters to the interior city of Kweiyang, slated as the next Chinese de facto capital...
With these words 60-year-old General Alexander von Falkenhausen left Hankow, China's temporary capital, for Germany last week. With him went 20 or more other German military advisers. No secret was it that General von Falkenhausen had no desire to leave China, that Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek had used all means to persuade him to remain, that the German military commission departed only after peremptory orders had been issued from Berlin. It was reported that in "a farewell message to the Chinese troops, General von Falkenhausen declared undying sympathy with the Chinese Army, that Berlin sent...
...knowing that the Germans constituted to a considerable extent the brains of the Chinese Army. Two months ago Germany obliged her Far Eastern ally by recalling the commission. When Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek showed strong reluctance to release the Germans from their contracts, Germany recalled Ambassador Oskar Trautmann from Hankow, hinted he might not be allowed to return...