Word: nankow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nankow Pass, where last November the turreted guns of an armored train had dominated the gateway to Kalgan, there was now a long hospital train waiting to pick up the wounded from a battle raging to the east, at Yenching. Lieut. General Lu Yingling and Major General Li Ming-ting, two of Fu's best field commanders, were dead. Red cavalry marauders moved freely in adjacent Jehol province (see cut). In Kalgan, staff officers muttered: "The Communists keep growing stronger. Nothing we can do seems to stop them...
...Kalgan, their prize of the civil war, the Communists can put their backs against Soviet-dominated Mongolia and Siberia, their faces toward Manchuria and North China. The old city guards the Great Wall at Nankow Pass, which is to China what the Khyber Pass is to India...
...learned about the Ever-Victorious Fifth; now the Allies were learning the hard way. Battle laurels of Japan's crack Fifth Division go back to the Russo-Japanese War. Once mummy-faced Lieut. General Seishiro Itagaki himself commanded it. It had smacked the Chinese at the battle of Nankow Pass in 1937, sacked Taiyiian, fought at Süchow. It had spearheaded the spectacular Japanese drive on Nanning...