Word: honan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Compared with China's 24 provinces, Tweedledum and Tweedledee are easy to keep straight. There are Hupeh, Hopeh. There are Shensi, Shansi. There are also Hunan, Honan. To say nothing of Kansu, Kiangsu, Kiangsi, Kwangsi, Kwangtung (not to be confused with Kwantung, in Manchukuo).* When the Japanese renewed military operations in China on a big scale, they made things as Tweedledum as possible for U. S. campaign followers by going to work in Kiangsi...
...These similar names were not adopted out of perversity. All mean something, e.g., Honan is South of the (Yellow) River, Hopeh is North of the (Yellow) River, Hupeh is North of the (Tung Ting) Lake, Hunan is South of the (Tung Ting) Lake...
...Japanese-controlled Provisional Government of Honan Province ordered expropriation of anthracite mines belonging to the Anglo-Chinese Finance & Trade Corp. This was the first instance of outright seizure, as distinct from calculated interference...
...Kiangsu, Chekiang, Anhwei, Kiangsi, Shantung, Hopeh, Shansi, Honan, Hupeh. Others supposed to be under partial Japanese military occupation: Kwangtung, Suiyuan...
Going much of the time on foot, the U. S. officer traversed 2,000 miles with Chinese soldiers. On one trip in northern Honan he crossed the Japanese-patrolled Yellow River with a small guerrilla band. Estimating that at least 600,000 Chinese soldiers operated in the occupied areas, Captain Carlson declared the Japanese control only garrisoned towns, railway lines, main highways...