Word: shansi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Japanese advance on land toward Shantung had approached so near its capital, Tsinan, last week that prosperous Chinese families were fleeing with their household goods by rail to the port of Tsingtao. Farther inland General Yen Hsi-shan, famed "Model Governor" of Shansi Province, was reported to have ordered the execution of his subordinate General Li Fu-ying, Commander of the 61st Chinese National Division, for abandoning Tatungfu to the Japanese without a fight after being ordered to hold it at all costs. Under terrific Japanese bombing was Governor Yen's capital Taiyuan. In Suiyuan Province still farther inland...
...Nanking with grandiose Oriental flourishes arrived Comrade Chin Pang-hsien, former Communist Chairman of the Chinese Soviet Government whose forces are now merged with those of the Chinese Government. "Our valiant Communist forces, now comprising the 8th Route Army of Nanking won two great battles last week in Shansi Province!" announced Chin. "They captured an entire Japanese battalion, including the commander, 60 truckloads of ammunition and one heavy, mounted gun with 2,000 projectiles. The Japanese lines crumbled under the swift, surprising blow ! More than 1,000 Japanese were killed and 10,000 Mongol and Japanese troops were disarmed...
...last week Japan had spent or appropriated $737,000,000, had landed 200,000 men in China-almost its entire standing army-and suffered untold thousands of casualties to prosecute that war. The war that was intended merely to nip off the Peiping section and possibly rich "model" Shansi Province, Shantung and Suiyuan, now covered China's entire 2,150 mi. coastline...
...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...
...step would be to seat this Manchu Emperor on the Dragon Throne of his ancestors at Peiping. To engineer such a coup, Japan sent to China her master schemer and spy, Major General Kenji Doihara who intrigued and bribed for the five North China provinces of Hopei, Chahar, Suiyuan, Shansi and Shantung to set themselves up as "autonomous" and independent of the rest of China (TIME, Nov. 25, 1935 et seq.). At about this time a Mr. Yin Ju-keng, a toothy and unappetizing Chinese with potent Japanese in-laws, was set up by Japanese soldiers as the satrap...