Word: nankow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...remnant of the 5,000 Chinese de fenders of Nankow Pass had fled south west to Shansi Province, joined a formi dable, well-equipped Chinese army there...
...China as they nibble it off, the efficient Japanese last week set up the "South Chahar Autonomous Government," with headquarters at Kalgan. This town, capital of Chahar Province, had been annexed by Japan eleven days before (TIME, Sept. 6), is on the Peiping-Suiyuan rail-road that sweeps through Nankow Pass, northern key to the fat, fertile plains that loop round the Shantung Peninsula. With Kalgan and the Nankow Pass already in their hands, the Japanese had only to capture the stretch of railroad from Kalgan to Suiyuan to find themselves with a stranglehold on North China...
...North. With Peiping and Tientsin already fallen to the Japanese since the outbreak of war, July 7, some 5,000 more square miles of Chinese territory were under "Japanese protection" last week. Along a wavering line of 150 miles from Nankow to Tangku on the coast (see map) a Japanese army of 120,000 battled with a Chinese force that outnumbered them...
Most decisive fight was the capture by Japanese of the twelve-mile-long Nankow pass, strategic gateway to Chahar Province. For 16 days Japanese battalions had struggled with dogged Chinese defenders in pouring rain and a sea of mud. Victory came when the Chinese flank on a 4,000 ft. ledge mounting the pass was turned by Japanese, who crossed the mountains to the west, savagely attacked from above with boulders and bayonets...
...Shanghai but almost all the Japanese reinforcements actually seen were on their way north to strengthen the forces around Peiping where bullet-headed General Fu Tso-yi, Chairman of Suiyuan Province, has been holding up the Japanese advance for nearly the past fortnight in the narrow gorges of Nankow Pass. With other northern warlords coming to help him last week, a general Chinese offensive was about to be attempted...