Word: kiangsi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chinese commanders at the Chekiang-Kiangsi front were plane-blind. They had to do reconnaissance on foot against an enemy who spotted their every move. Their men had to suffer strafing and bombing without hope of retaliation. They could not help falling back, ceding mile after mile of the railroad which would give the Japanese a route to central China...
...eastern theater, in Chekiang Province, where the Japanese Army wants to seize airfield's within reach of Japan and Formosa, Japanese reinforcements poured in from east, north and southeast, forming a huge, closing maw. A new spearhead pushed north from the Canton area. China's Chekiang-Kiangsi and Hankow-Canton railroads were eaten up mile by hard-fought mile. Yet Chiang was optimistic...
Fifty Japanese bombers pounded airfields in Fukien, Kiangsi, and Hunan Provinces in what the Central News Agency called a "deliberate effort to wipe out Allied air bases in east and south China." Some of the fields lay within 700 miles of Japan. The wonderful thing to the newspaper readers was word that planes of the Chinese air force had gone into the air to fight back; and had even bombed Japanese garrisons. "Hun hun hao," they said-"wonderful...
...Front is the place where any Chinese offensive will have to start. To Washington last week the Generalissimo dispatched a distinguished Chinese military mission. Its head is rugged, handsome General Hsiung Shih-hui (who speaks excellent Japanese but little English), who has been a divisional commander and Governor of Kiangsi Province...