Word: hengyang
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Around besieged Hengyang the Jap lay fat and well-fed. Toward him plodded the patient, pauper soldiers of China. TIME Correspondent Theodore H. White went on one such expedition that tried to reach Hengyang's defenders, reported it in this dispatch...
...unbuttoned his shirt, let the sweat pour down his dusty face in tired rivulets. I peeled down to bare middle and the heat slowly settled in to choke us. The train was making about six miles an hour and the colonel was telling us about the evacuation of Hengyang...
...Hengyang Holds Out. About 100,000 Japanese had fought down 100 miles from Changsha past Hengyang, straddling the Hankow-Canton railway on a 50-mile front (see map). In the face of Chinese high command blunders and confusion, the Japanese power reached farther south in this area than ever before. North to meet them from Canton drove another Japanese force. If the two joined, China would be split by a Japanese-garrisoned railway...
...bypassed Hengyang the Chinese Tenth Army held out with desperate courage. It fed on the city's rice stores, kept up the fight with well worn guns, and ammunition parachuted by the Fourteenth U.S. Air Force. At the same time Major General Claire L. Chennault's planes ripped Japanese communications...
Then the Chinese Army turned on counterpressure. New troops came in from other districts, attacks grew sharper. In the face of this opposition the Japanese apparently began to withdraw. There were even reports that siege lines around Hengyang were cracking...