Word: hankow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mouth of the Yangtze gorges, the Chinese and Japanese were engaged in the most furious fighting since Burma fell. Only a few authentic facts of the battle could be learned. A fortnight before, the Japanese had launched a drive in Central China (TIME, May 31). Scouring the triangle between Hankow and the Yangtze gorges of marauding guerrillas, they secured bases on the northern shores of Tungting Lake in such places as Mitushih, Hwajung and Yuayung, then drove west across the flatlands under a withering curtain of aerial strafing...
...puppets danced last week in Occupied China. Behind the scenes the Jap pulled the wires. Obediently representatives of Vichy and Nanking signed a document that surrendered the old French concessions in Tientsin, Hankow and Canton to the puppet Chinese Government of Wang Ching-wei. Bleated the Tokyo radio: "Conclusive evidence of collaboration in a new order in East Asia...
...Japanese push was surging westward along the Yangtze River. Immediate objectives seemed to be: 1) clearing the river between Hankow and Ichang; 2) seizing control of the western outlet of the 120-mile stretch of Yangtze gorges through which Chinese supplies are fed to the central front...
...There they found ten B-17s, picked up some dislocated combat crews who had come out of Java and the Philippines, and from the U.S. via Africa. At last the Bastards were ready to fly. They started by bombing Rangoon and the Andaman Islands, and ranged across China to Hankow...
...Chinese 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...