Word: honan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japanese columns rumbled from their village bases, snaked westward across the knee-high wheat of Honan. Overhead, their aircraft roared on their way to bomb Chinese towns strung out along the Hwang Ho, the River of Sorrow...
...seize Honan's wheat crop, reputed to be good...
Last year three million Chinese died, 20 million were affected by the great Honan (Central China) famine. Chungking correspondents last week reported another famine, this time in the Kwangtung area in South China. More than 1,000,000 Chinese have died there since last June; millions more are in acute want...
China's Balance Sheet. With characteristic courage, China has surmounted the past year's difficulties: two terrible famines that swept Honan and Kwangtung, a price level now 87 times the pre-war level, the throttling grip of the blockade, the hunger of vast armies for medicines and munitions, the creeping paralysis of transport. The only major Japanese military drive this year-the campaign in western Hupeh-has been smashed. The Chinese Air Force has taken the air for the first time in several years, shot down enemy planes, cooperated with the U.S. Fourteenth Air Force...
...Threat? A dribble of hungry, ragged, ill-armed Chungking soldiers has trickled into the Nanking camp. The Jap last week claimed the desertion of 70,000 Free Chinese troops on the Honan front, about 400 miles northeast of this week's fierce battle for the Yangtze River gorges (see p. 33). The Chiang Government hotly denied it. Wang's army is not a trustworthy army; despite purges, it is honeycombed with Chiang sympathizers. But it has relieved regular Jap units of garrison duty, helped Tokyo meet a serious manpower shortage, may some day take the field against Chiang...