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...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...
Training Wreckers. The Chinese guerrillas, largely operating in Shansi, Hopeh and Shantung Provinces, are loosely organized into a "People's Self-Defense Army." Crude village arsenals make their grenades, bullets and broadswords, but much of their ammunition is unwillingly furnished by the Japanese. Clad in green cotton uniforms enabling them to melt into the countryside after a daylight raid, the guerrillas are taught to wreck Japanese troop and supply trains, ambush food convoys and attack isolated Japanese garrisons...
...Shansi Province last week, almost 300 miles north of Hankow, Communist guerrillas, fighting far behind Japanese front lines, continued to slash communication lines, ambush food and reinforcement convoys. From Hankow Japanese forces fanned out in a wide circle 200 miles in circumference, feeling for stray Chinese bands...
Hopeh Province twinkled with guerrillas. In Shantung Province, where about 160,000 guerrillas and remnants of the Chinese regulars operate, the map showed a whole constellation. Most harried Japanese-occupied province of all was Shansi, where 40 divisions of Chinese troops, mostly Communist, totaling 240,000 made life difficult for the Japanese soldier. No part of the occupied area was without its star clusters...