Word: jehol
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Padded Uniforms, The sturdy North Chinese soldier fights (hyperbolic Mr. Lo notwithstanding) neither unarmed nor unclothed. His rifle, his cotton uniform stuffed with wadding and his tough constitution, inured to sub-zero winters, should make him no mean match in freezing Jehol for men from Japan's warm islands. Last week Japan's three-barbed offensive, closing in on Chengteh, the capital of Jehol, from Kailu, Chinchow and Suichung, advanced through snows as much as a foot deep, braved blizzards which reduced visibility at times to nil, plunged on with thermometers so low that Japanese machine guns occasionally...
Niagara of Bombs. Savage Japanese bombing ahead of her advancing troops explained some of their successes, scarcely all. Foreign military attaches were frankly amazed when the middle Japanese spearhead plunged with seeming ease into Chaoyang, the second largest Jehol city, supposed to have been defended by large Chinese forces guarding an "impregnable pass." Swooping down on more than 1,000 Chinese soldiers in the pass, an entire Japanese air squadron loosed a Niagara of thundering bombs. "I think," reported the Japanese squadron leader, "that we just about wiped them...
...Empire's most cold-hardened troops, soldiers from Hokkaido, northmost major island of Japan. To reach Lingyuan they would have to take two mountain passes of great natural strategic strength. Reputedly these passes were held by picked troops sent down from Chengteh by the Governor of Jehol, redoubtable Tang Yulin (see col. 1) and up from China proper by "Young Marshal" Chang Hsueh-liang of Peiping...
...from Shanhaikwan, the only city inside the Great Wall of China held by Japan. When nothing came of all this booming, Japanese suggested that the roar of China's guns (possibly firing blanks) was a bluff "to scare off our observers and cover large Chinese troop movements into Jehol...
Morale High. First white war correspondent to report from central Jehol was United Press's Herbert R. Ekins. "I saw the real picture of warfare today," he flashed from Lingyuan. "Passing through three lines of Chinese trenches I witnessed three Japanese airplanes flying out of the east circle low. . . . One plane dropped a bomb which exploded with a terrific blast, but, except for ripping a huge crater in the ground, it merely injured a 10-year...