Word: honan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...west, in the inland provinces of Honan, Shansi, Suiyuan and Chahar, the Communists were on the offensive. They had attacked at least a dozen provincial towns surrendered by the Japanese to Central Government forces. At week's end they were storming two important places: Tatung, North Shansi rail junction; and Kweisui, capital of Suiyuan...
...Roberts Commission (the ten-gallon official title: American Commission for the Protection and Salvage of Artistic and Historic Monuments in War Areas). Last week, waiting in Washington, Jayne had his worries. About Peking: "I hope [the Japs] treat it like Paris." About the temples and museum in Honan Province: what of the priceless, encrusted Shang and Chou bronzes? As for Japan: "There is some wonderful old wooden architecture there...
There were ominous reports that further Jap divisions were moving down from the Honan front to Hunan, reports that flotillas of Jap reinforcements were steadily moving up the Yangtze River, reports from Hunan that a brigade of 200 light tanks was ready to go into action soon. The Chinese might be able to muster a slightly larger number of men-but incomparably less equipment. And the nearest Chinese reinforcements were in Yunnan, about 30 days' march distant...
...Szechwan alone the grain yield would be at least 250,000,000 piculs (600,000,000 bushels), or 40 to 50% above last year. Kansu, Honan, and Shensi had already harvested their biggest wheat crops in 15 years. Yunnan, too, expected a bumper crop. In the great metropolitan collection depots the Government's rat-proof bins bulged with grain piled in wicker baskets twice as high as a man's head. River junks and sampans had to be used for emergency grain storage...
...planes were needed against Jap shipping off the China coast; they were needed up north on the Yellow River, where the enemy was .trying to drive westward in Honan Province; they were needed down south on the Salween, where the Chinese were driving laboriously into Burma to join up with Stilwell's forces...