Word: ichang
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ichang neared, the bag of rice was shifted again to a duck-bottomed little junk. Five miles and one river bend above Ichang (the high-water mark of Japanese penetration) the junk ran onto the bank, and the bag of rice was loaded on a coolie's back. The coolie, who carried the rice up a wire-tangled gully toward Divisional H.Q., could hear the boom of artillery. But it was not Chinese artillery...
...crest of the final hill, the coolie could see the entire Ichang Front. All around him were the Chinese strong points: machine-gun posts supported by trenched rifle pits. Farther down were lines of trenches skillfully disguised by green branches, banks of sod, transplanted wheat; odoriferous dugouts in which odoriferous soldiers huddled 24 hours a day; then bamboo and wooden barricades and mine traps; and finally 200 yards of no man's land. Beyond were the Japanese lines-barbed wire, solidly barricaded trenches, concrete emplacements. The whole scene was intimately still-so still that the coolie could hear bees...
...Chen Cheng is also a skillful soldier. The measure of his talent is that the Generalissimo chose him to defend the Gorges -which means defending Chungking, which means defending Chiang. Last summer, when Ichang fell, Chen Cheng was blamed by some for the bad strategy which lost that key city. He then gave up his comfortable job in Chungking as Chief of the Army's Political Training Department and went to the front, publicly vowing not to return until he had retaken Ichang...
...what Chungking called "the biggest single victory of the war." Desperate, the Japanese undertook a surprise attack, this time successful, on Nanning, in order to cut down on the flow of munitions from French Indo-China into China. This was a serious blow to the Chinese. The fall of Ichang early this month gave the Japanese a convenient base for new and heavier-than-ever bombing attacks on Chungking. But the biggest Japanese successes of 1939-40 were accomplished by the Germans in Poland, Norway, Flanders, France...
...press; Suma dryly remarked: "Good things can never come too late." Toward the Chinese, for whose benefit the philanthropic Japanese allegedly designed their New Order, Tokyo was somewhat less subtle. Chungking suffered its worst bombing of the year: 154 planes, 800 bombs, 1,500 casualties. Japanese forces claimed Ichang. This was an important victory, since Ichang is one-third of the way up the Yangtze toward Chungking from Hankow. The Kunming-Hanoi' railroad line was severely bombed, leading New York Times's reliable F. Tillman Durdin to predict a Japanese attack on French Indo-China. Next day France...