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China. The Jap grew daily more fierce in the occupied provinces of China. Bloodcurdling stories of mass massacres seeped out of newly occupied Chekiang Province. In the northern Hopei-Shantung-Shansi triangle the Japs tried a scorched-earth policy of burning out villages and frightening civilians from whom guerrilla bands receive food and shelter. But in Shanghai the Japanese had been busy trying to make the Chinese like their puppet government...
Yamashita's experience in North China was rigorous preparation for his recent labors. He commanded on the tangled, hilly Shansi front and had to combat the best of China's guerrillas. He used many of their war tricks in Malaya...
Gardener spent a year in Shansi province, northern China, in 1939, and had many opportunities to witness the effectiveness of Chinese guerrillas who have developed a fine science after five years...
There were four main areas of Chinese push. Up north in Shansi a Chinese force of 20,000 was at work. In central China, near Nanking, Chinese mercenary troops of the Japanese puppet Wang Ching-wei reportedly revolted, blew up two Japanese troop trains and attacked several small villages. A Chinese force also attacked the town of Langsi and "liquidated all of the Japanese defenders." Farther south, only 100 miles from Shanghai, another Chinese Army forced its way across the Chientang River. In the extreme southwest, whence the Japanese carelessly drained troops for the investment of Indo-China, some...
...third year, summer of 1939, opened with spectacular Chinese victories in Shansi Province. The Japanese shook up their high command and started a face-saving drive on Changsha. Their faces were slapped instead, in what Chungking called "the biggest single victory of the war." Desperate, the Japanese undertook a surprise attack, this time successful, on Nanning, in order to cut down on the flow of munitions from French Indo-China into China. This was a serious blow to the Chinese. The fall of Ichang early this month gave the Japanese a convenient base for new and heavier-than-ever bombing...