Word: lunge
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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SHANGHAI--Tuesday -- The whole eastern half of China's great fortified Lung-Hai line, defending Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Sheck's provisional capital at Hankow, was collapsing today under terrific blows from four Japanese armies. All advices agreed the Chinese were losing the greatest battle of the war and that the key city of Suchow-Fu would be fully occupied by the Japanese during this week
SHANGHAI--Reinforced Japanese armies battered Chinese lines today along an irregular front of more than 1500 miles from Ningpo, south of Shanghai, to Suchow-Pu, in east central China, and Puchow-Fu, in southwest Shansi Province. The full length of the vital Lung-Hai railway, defending Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek's Provisional capital in Hankow, still remained in Chinese hands, however...
Died. Edward Tuck, 95, famed philanthropist; of a lung disease; in Monte Carlo. At 40 he retired from business, gave millions to Dartmouth College and French charities, was one of two Americans ever made an honorary citizen of Paris* and one of the few ever to be awarded the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor...
...Japanese "grand push," launched ten weeks ago to capture the Chinese "Hindenburg Line" and the strategic Lung-hai Railway, was still stalled last week on the banks of the Grand Canal in southern Shantung Province, 35 miles northeast of Suchow. Fast-striking Chinese guerilla units, employing shifting flank attacks, last week struck at all sides of the Japanese forces, spread out in a rough quadrangle in the Shantung area. Towns were taken, then recaptured as neither side made an effort to hold positions for long. Chinese guerillas tore up sections along 40 miles of the Tientsin-Pukow railway...
...last autumn when a Chinese plague of cholera threatened the world (TIME, Oct. 25). As cholera subsided, typhus rose, wrung from League Sanitarian Herman H. Mooser a warning: "The danger is imminent. Refugees throughout Central China are simply filthy with typhus-carrying lice. All the Chinese soldiers in the Lung-hai area (see p. 17) are lousy. There are no Chinese delousing stations, and we are half crazy trying to get co-operation from Chinese military and civilian officials. Members of my mission are doing what they can but we are practically without supplies...