Word: nankingers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Japan's military spokesmen in Shanghai declared that 250,000 confused, ill-armed, uncommanded-troops were hopelessly trapped in the Suchow area. At Hankow, China's temporary capital, Chinese commanders were more optimistic, said their best troops had withdrawn, claimed recapture of two towns, announced that they were...
Coordinated with the Chinese offensive was a far-flung guerilla warfare rivaling any irregular fighting for scope and intensity yet experienced in modern times. No part of presumably conquered Chinese territory seemed to be free from the guerillas. The Nanking-Shanghai area, well within Japanese lines, was declared unsafe. At...
The Japanese aim is to clear the Tient-sin-Pukow Railway so the Japanese puppets of Peiping can be united with the equally submissive Nanking puppets. At one point north of Suchow the Japanese advance guard was stalled 15 miles from the Lunghai Railway. At another point south of Suchow...
After extensive travels in North China, the Japanese War Minister General Hajima Sugiyama returned to Tokyo last week and obviously it was time to review the war (see map), now about to enter a fresh, perhaps final phase. Japanese Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye admitted last week that his Cabinet has...
Robbery and looting also flourished in Nanking for many weeks. The number of Chinese executed, not killed in battle, totals by the most conservative Nanking estimates 20,000. Excerpt from a Nanking letter written at the worst period: "One [Chinese] boy of seventeen came in with the tale of about...