Word: shantung
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...bowl over Chinese towns one by one, only to have the Chinese seep in behind their advance and set them up again. Last week Japanese announced they had captured coastal Haichow (pronounced Hi, Joe) and Lungkow (Loong-Go), last Chinese-held ports north of Shanghai, and two inland Shantung towns...
...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...
...upstart bandit general, Wu Pei-fu is respected by many Chinese in his native Shantung Province who call themselves Wu mi ("infatuated with Wu"). Before he was ten years old, he could recite thousands of lines of the Chinese classics. No other Chinese military leader is so familiar with the writings of Confucius, from one of whose favorite pupils he is said to be directly descended. When barely 19 his academic robe was adorned with "four buttons,"scholarly rewards for "felicity in phrasing."Almost alone among Chinese war lords, he cared little for wealth, was scrupulously honest, did not allow...
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...
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...