Word: hankow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some weeks the Japanese have been building up two great troop pools. One is at Hankow in central China, the other at Saigon in Indo-China. The latter might be used against India or Australia. But if the Japanese drives now under way are successful, both might be drawn on to crush China-the southern pool to drive toward Chungking from the south; the central pool to push a drive through Sian, severing northern from middle China and cutting off Chiang from his Russian friends. These two moves, undertaken together, would constitute a giant pincers movement on Chungking...
...Japanese appeared to be making rapid progress today in their campaign to clear major Chinese forces from the great Canton-Hankow-Shanghai triangle of southeast China and it was obvious that the position of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek's harassed government in Chungking was becoming increasingly difficult...
This story of war in China, readable at any time, is of a particular interest now which rates it high on U.S. best-seller lists. Its chief characters: a rich man, a Buddhist, a girl. Its setting: the: cities of Peking, Shanghai, Hankow, and the guerrilla-landscapes between. Its dominant theme: some of the effects of war upon the human spirit...
China had just passed through six of the most active weeks since the fall of Hankow in 1938. The Japanese had withdrawn troops from Ichang, lunged at Chinese-held Changsha and seized it, only to be driven out. The Chinese, in turn, had smashed at Japanese-held Ichang and held that city for three days; then they, too, had been driven out. The two campaigns balanced. They proved that the Japanese could not withdraw troops from extended outposts without jeopardizing them, could hold no new positions without reinforcements. They proved that without artillery the Chinese had no hope of putting...
...When Hankow fell three years ago the warlords grudgingly permitted Chiang Kai-shek to establish his national capital at Chungking in their Province. Chungking's first big bombing in May 1939 gave Chiang an excuse to establish control of that city and eastern Szechwan. Gradually he brought his own armies into the Province, thrust his appointees into provincial posts. He forced the warlords to send troops to the front, while his own men cracked down on opium bootlegging, main source of the corrupt warlords' revenue. By last year Chiang was so firmly in control that he could install...