Word: hengyang
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...China's war-within-a-war, a great battle had ended in Chinese defeat: after six weeks of siege, heroic Hengyang, on the Hankow-Canton railway, fell to the Japanese. The last word from Hengyang's starving, desperate Chinese garrison went on the radio just a few hours before the end. Said Hengyang's commander: "I am afraid this may be my last message...
Laopaihsing-"old hundred names"-the Chinese call the little people of China. The laopaihsing are the backbone of China's long endurance. Last week in Kweilin, at the end of the trunk railway from Hengyang, New York Timesman Brooks Atkinson sampled laopaihsing opinion, asked the little people what they would do if the Japs came...
...captain began to tell how he sold cosmetics for Max Factor all through the Orient before the war. Then, as if something clicked in his mind, he reverted to the story of the evacuation of Hengyang...
...division had struck at 3:30 that-morning, creeping up the hills in the dawn. By midmorning it had taken seven of the ten hills that guarded the town. Divisional headquarters was certain that by next day the division would break through the Japs and the road to relieve Hengyang would be open. We set out for the front to see the fighting...
What could be done, I asked the commander. He said his decision had been made by higher headquarters-he was to shift attacking forces from the railroad into the hills, try to bypass the Jap garrison, close with the enemy positions at some point nearer Hengyang high in the roadless hills. We could go with him or return. We thanked him, said we would go back and write what his men had tried...