Word: shansi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Japanese had a tingling sensation in their small, tidy bones. It said to them that the time had come to pulverize their great neighbor, to nip off the five wealthy Chinese northern provinces of Shantung, Hopei, Shansi, Suiyuan, Chahar...
...Eighth Route Army harries the invader by guerrilla fighting throughout Shansi and Southern Hopei, and a "People's Self-Defense Army" of 50,000 mobile guerrilla units operates in central Hopei. By day a Chinese peasant, brown as the earth he tills, may placidly hoe his rows; by night he may be part of a guerrilla band that is chivying Japanese sentries; next day, when the Japanese start reprisals, he will be back on his acre, his gun and soldier's kit buried, a blank look on his face...
...Chinese think differently. Their troops were last week on the offensive in southeast Hupeh, almost captured Nanchang in Kiangsi Province. China's reborn air force last week raided Japanese bases in Shansi, downed four enemy planes...
...Kiangsu, Chekiang, Anhwei, Kiangsi, Shantung, Hopeh, Shansi, Honan, Hupeh. Others supposed to be under partial Japanese military occupation: Kwangtung, Suiyuan...
...bullet-shaped head, while Chiang Kai-shek carried on his ten years of futile war against the Communists, Chu Teh now has under him a force of about 150,000 fervent Communist soldiers, another 300,000 embattled farmers, operating behind the Japanese front lines in Shansi and Shantung provinces...