Word: jehol
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Though the world was loudly promised that Japan's invasion of Jehol would stop at the Great Wall of China, Japanese troops found themselves occupying about 1,000 sq. mi. of Chinese territory inside the Wall last week, firing at fleeing Chinese only 100 mi. from Tientsin. Heaviest fighting took place at Leng Pass 50 miles inland from Shanhaikwan. Because Japanese citizens and taxpayers were grimly considering the first official casualty lists of the Jehol campaign (1,479 Japanese soldiers killed, 3,468 wounded), Japanese staff officers moved more prudently. Fifty field guns and 30 military planes pounded...
...moving 8,000 of his best men to northern Kwantung province where they would join other Cantonese and Southern troops and advance against the Japanese. Foreign correspondents expected this move to be more effective in blasting the prestige of Nationalist Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek than in driving Japan from Jehol...
...night of March 3, 1933 and all the following day brought an avalanche of news to editors' desks throughout the land. Herbert Hoover was leaving the White House. Franklin Roosevelt was going in. ... Banks all over the country were being closed by decree. ... A wild stockmarket. . . . Jehol fell to the Japanese. . . . Mayor Cermak was dying. . . . President Roosevelt asked extraordinary powers. . . . Extra session to deal with banks...
From Shanghai, where he had lived in constant terror of kidnapping since fleeing Japan's invasion of Jehol, disgraced Marshal Chang Hsiao-Hang, resigned ruler of Peiping, sailed for Italy with his wife and 17 female "secretaries...
...After the loss of the Three Eastern Provinces [Manchuria proper], I tried my best to remedy my faults, but the fall of Jehol convinced me I am unfit to keep command. I have not fulfilled my duties to the Government and my responsibilities to the people...