Word: hsueh
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...Kwangsi Province and its capital, Kweilin, had all kinds and grades of equipment: U.S. artillery, Russian tanks, Jap or Chinese guns. Some had fired away the last shell before the climax of the campaign came. Some were exhausted, others untried. In one corner of the Jap flank General Hsueh Yueh had 4,000 men-but only 2,000 serviceable rifles. Other units lacked boards to construct shelters, lacked signal flags for communicating with American airplanes, lacked radios to link their own flanks to their own headquarters...
Tired Troops. Before the enemy stood the tired Chinese armies of round-faced, explosive General Hsueh Yueh. Once some of China's finest, these troops had been run through the meat grinder at Changteh last November; had still not recovered. They had had to pull out of Changsha after a stubborn, hopeless defense, to escape annihilation. This week the armies, beat out, short of food, retreated painfully on foot. Where they could stand and fight, no one seemed to know...
...disrespectful. If you regard me as your prisoner, kill me, but don't subject me to indignities." Chiang was taken to a house under guard. There he furiously reprimanded his captor, Chang Hsueh-liang, the "Young Marshal...
Chinese General Hsueh Yo said this week that Japan had 32 divisions on the Siberian border ready for a crack at Soviet Russia-if Adolf Hitler weakened Russia enough. By way of preparation for war, Japan sent three vessels to the U.S. to take its nationals back home. But even high Japanese Army officers were not too happy about the prospect. Commenting on Japan's present predicament, Colonel Kikujiro Okada of the War Ministry said: "We cannot just die off, smothering in an iron bucket clamped over our head, and at the same time we cannot remove the bucket...
...they neared Changsha, the Japanese dropped parachutists, signaled their plain-clothes men within the city. Japanese infantry penetrated the gates, raided the city. But they were tired. Sensing the moment, General Hsueh ordered a counterattack. Back snapped the bowstring, the Japanese with it. Foreign correspondents, whom the Japanese had summoned to witness a victory, saw from Japanese planes long columns of Japanese troops retreating...