Word: nankow
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...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...
...Bullet-headed General Fu Tso-yi, chairman of Suiyuan Province, with 4,000 men was still holding out against Japanese attacks in the narrow gorges of Nankow Pass...
...north, the Pekingese forces of Super-Tuchuns Chang Tsolin and Wu Pei-fu pushed back the armies of Super-Tuchun Feng Yuhsiang through Nankow Pass to new and probably impregnable lines in southern Mongolia. Thus Peking was relieved temporarily of all fear of reconquest by Feng. The city, now definitely in the hands of Chang and Wu continued to suffer sporadic pillage and somewhat indiscriminate rapine from their exuberant soldiery...