Word: hankow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japanese allegedly designed their New Order, Tokyo was somewhat less subtle. Chungking suffered its worst bombing of the year: 154 planes, 800 bombs, 1,500 casualties. Japanese forces claimed Ichang. This was an important victory, since Ichang is one-third of the way up the Yangtze toward Chungking from Hankow. The Kunming-Hanoi' railroad line was severely bombed, leading New York Times's reliable F. Tillman Durdin to predict a Japanese attack on French Indo-China. Next day France fell, and the future status of Indo-China became vague...
...after day the planes came. Politely a Japanese naval spokesman in Hankow said that raids would continue daily until Chungking's "spirit of resistance is broken." Each day the foolish, childish Chinese looked into the sky and wondered whether the planes would come. When they did, the stolid, fascinated faces of those about to die watched them, with a hate which would not be broken even if the Japanese bombed until the whole 750-foot rock of Chungking was blasted to sea level...
...some 150,000 Japanese troops began the first big drive of spring 1940 against Chinese forces on the plateau in northern Hupeh and southern Honan near Hankow, bomb-gutted "Chicago of China." Object was to win a victory spectacular enough to justify final and official recognition by the Imperial Japanese Government of their Chinese puppet ruler at Nanking, multiple-turncoat Wang Ching...
...their sampans out of Canton just as Japanese entered it, Sun Yat-sen's students pushed ahead by night, hid in the rushes of West River by day. (Biggest migration was not to a university but to a Communist school at Yenan, in northwest China. The roads from Hankow to Yenan were crowded for months with 40,000 youngsters traveling to training classes in propaganda and politics...
...Kung allotted $2,000,000 (Chinese), promised $3,000,000 more. On Aug. 5, 1938, the leaders met and constituted themselves as a central committee of the Chinese Industrial Cooperatives. Fittingly this economic defense against Japanese penetration was born in the commandeered building of the Yokohama Specie Bank in Hankow...