Word: kiangsu
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...retreat. A mechanized group under General Chiu Ching-chuan (whose second in command is the Gimo's younger son, Chiang Wei-kuo) broke up a Communist attempt at encirclement, and helped other Nationalist divisions to fight their way back to the west and south. The well-watered North Kiangsu plain seethed like an ant heap with soldiers on the move, as Government Field Commander General Tu Yu-ming desperately shifted his men over rutted roads and torn-up rail tracks to establish a new line with its back to the broad Yangtze. Past the military columns rattled slow trains...
...River plunging through Fukien province, drowning a thousand people, flooding 50 towns. A million refugees crowded the highlands, mourning the loss of 80% of Fukien's rice harvest. Tungting Lake overflowed, ruining 50% of Hunan's rice. In Kiangsi Province, 60% of the rice was destroyed; in Kiangsu...
...Communist Representative Chou En-lai came back to the Nanking negotiations after a month's sulk in Shanghai, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek flew to Formosa on what he said was a routine, long-scheduled inspection trip. Observers, recalling the North Kiangsu offensive launched during Chiang's summer absence at Kuling, decided to wait and see. They saw plenty...
...took China's Central Government seven months to bring its No. i war criminal to trial, but only six hours to try him and a week to find him guilty. In the century-old mansion that houses the Kiangsu High Court at Soochow, Columbia-educated Chen Kung-po, last president of the late Wang Ching-wei's Nanking puppet regime, heard the judgment of his people: traitor, death...
Inland waterways in Hupeh, winding through rivers and lakes, famous for their river pirates, were transformed by war into one of China's most important smuggling networks. Cloth, medicine, cigarets and cotton pour through these channels from provinces as far distant as Chekiang, Anhwei, Kiangsu. Now Japan's troops straddle these inland waterways. To cut traffic entirely, they have to advance only 20 miles more, to Santouping's fortifications...