Word: ichang
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Correspondent Belden, fresh from the central front, last week, verified Chinese claims that the Japanese used gas in the battle of Ichang four weeks ago (TIME, Oct. 20). The Japanese had denied it. Jack Belden had seen soldiers suffering from gas blisters as large as tennis balls, whose skin was turning black...
China had just passed through six of the most active weeks since the fall of Hankow in 1938. The Japanese had withdrawn troops from Ichang, lunged at Chinese-held Changsha and seized it, only to be driven out. The Chinese, in turn, had smashed at Japanese-held Ichang and held that city for three days; then they, too, had been driven out. The two campaigns balanced. They proved that the Japanese could not withdraw troops from extended outposts without jeopardizing them, could hold no new positions without reinforcements. They proved that without artillery the Chinese had no hope of putting...
...Central China. It ended in the founding of a republic. Last week, as if timing its action to the anniversary, the Chinese Army announced one of the greatest victories of the Chinese War: Chinese troops had at last hammered their way into the Yangtze River city of Ichang, farthest point of Japanese penetration...
...victory of Double Ten was not as durable as the republic of Double Ten. Within three days the Chinese turned about face and abandoned Ichang at double time. The Chinese Military Operations Board announced, Japanese-fashion, that the Chinese had "accomplished their objective of diverting Japanese pressure" farther north...
...Japanese had taken Changsha, they had scored their first important victory in China since Ichang fell in June, 1940. Changsha was the focal point of all communications feeding the central front south of the Yangtze. Into Changsha for redistribution poured men and arms from Chungking, gasoline and supplies from the Burma Road, food from neighboring rice country. If Changsha was in Japanese hands, there were dark days ahead for Chiang Kai-shek's Armies to the north and east...