Word: hankow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...anti-aircraft batteries did magnificent work at the main centres of attack, such as Nanking and Shanghai, but little or nothing could be done against Japan's methodical daily bombing of China's necessarily exposed railway lines, the arteries of her troops and supplies. The new Hankow-Canton railway was so heavily bombed that neutrals doubted if it was still functioning this week, agreed that the line from Nanking which starts from Pukow across the river and runs to the main war zone in North China was being bombed at intervals over its whole length...
...Japan's luck was good last week. General Count Juichi Terauchi, former Minister of War and now commander-in-chief in North China, was able to send a column of 60,000 men, mechanized, well-equipped, headed by cavalry, southwest from Peiping to cut the vitally important Peiping-Hankow railroad at Chochow...
Subscriptions which travel through the cities of Shanghai, Peiping, Nanking, Hankow, and Canton have been affected...
South of Peiping two roughly parallel railroads run, one to central Hankow the other to Pukow and Nanking. Because divisions of Chiang Kai-shek's highly mechanized, German-trained personal army were driving north six weeks ago, threatening to cut the Japanese line between Peiping and the sea, the Japanese Navy was ordered to stage what is technically known as a diversion at Shanghai...
...advance at Paoting on one railroad, at Machang on the other, but got the Japanese Navy in such hot water that Japanese divisions had to be sent to its rescue, divisions badly needed in the real theatre of war, North China. The Chinese divisions were still on the Peiping-Hankow and Tientsin-Pukow railroads last week, so General Kazuki, now reinforced, moved south against them. Whereupon Japanese soldiers promptly found themselves out of the mud but in the water. Torrential rains and dikes blasted by Chinese flooded miles of countryside, waist deep. Japanese planes could bomb Machang almost at will...