Word: hankow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Down from the north came Japanese columns, paralleling the strategic Hankow-Canton railway on both sides (see map). They meant business. Five regular divisions, two hundred planes were in this shove. Last time the Japanese pushed on Changsha the Chinese destroyed the roads, encircled the attackers, forced them into disastrous retreat. This time the Japanese brought with them six full regiments of engineers. Communications with the rear were to be kept open at all costs...
...grave new worries. Marshal Chiang Kai-shek's troops have been getting most of their war supplies from the southwest over the Burma Road, from the southeast by night smuggling from Hong Kong-via Chinese junks and coolies' carts-to the free sections of the Canton-Hankow railway. Last week the Japanese were slicing viciously at both supply lines...
Three weeks ago the famed Eighth Route Army, rallying bands of tough farmers, went to work. By last week the Japanese Army admitted "considerable embarrassment," which is Japanese for plenty trouble. Guerrillas had cut the Peking-Hankow and Shihkiachwang-Tai-yuan Railways. They had captured and destroyed Japanese busses and trucks on the Peking-Tientsin road. And they had ensconced themselves in the beautiful Western Hills-not 30 miles from the city they stubbornly call Peiping...
...after thunder last week came rain. Promptly at 9:30, on the morning after Wang announced his order, terrorists sprang out of a side street opening into Hankow Road and hurled four hand grenades at Shun Pao's office. Eight Chinese were wounded...
...second year Japan's slowing thunderbolt almost rolled to a stop. Only major successes were the capture of Hankow, where the Government had lighted after the fall of Nanking, and whence it moved on to Chungking (TIME, Feb. 21, 1938); the dreadful bombing and subsequent capture of Canton (TIME, June 30, 1938), cutting off the supply route from Britain's Hong Kong to the interior; the investment of most of the coast line as far down as Hong Kong; the occupation, for strategic reasons, of Hainan Island; and terrific bombings of Chungking-which served to consolidate rather than...