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...Shantung Campaign. The historic first defeat in modern times of a major Japanese force, when Chinese fortnight ago drove the invaders out of Taierhchwang and chased them 20 miles back into Yihsien, brought down overwhelming Japanese reinforcements from Tsinan and Tsingtao last week. These raised the siege of Yihsien, from which 20,000 Chinese retreated, and approximately 150,000 Japanese effectives were said to face perhaps 400,000 Chinese along the broad "Chinese Hindenburg Line" paralleling the Lunghai Railway. Greatly alarmed, responsible Chinese newsorgans editorialized last week "Suchow is our Verdun," admitted that if Suchow is taken by the Japanese...
...walled city of Tsinan, capital of Shantung Province, is some 150 miles behind the Japanese front lines in Central China. For three months it has been part of Japan's "conquered territory" and the base of operations for the Japanese thrust at China's "Hindenburg Line" along the Lunghai Railway in southern Shantung. Garrisoned only by a small Japanese force because all available troops have been sent to the front, the Japanese were forced to employ two Chinese battalions, who surrendered when the city was occupied, as Tsinan's military police. Last week hundreds of Chinese soldiers...
...Japanese "grand push," launched ten weeks ago to capture the Chinese "Hindenburg Line" and the strategic Lung-hai Railway, was still stalled last week on the banks of the Grand Canal in southern Shantung Province, 35 miles northeast of Suchow. Fast-striking Chinese guerilla units, employing shifting flank attacks, last week struck at all sides of the Japanese forces, spread out in a rough quadrangle in the Shantung area. Towns were taken, then recaptured as neither side made an effort to hold positions for long. Chinese guerillas tore up sections along 40 miles of the Tientsin-Pukow railway...
Taierhchwang--Chinese expand their great victory in South Shantung Province--Thousands of Japanese killed--The Chinese reported besieging trapped Japanese garrison in the provincial capital, Tsinan-Fu--Japanese reported rushing reinforcements from north and west...
...whole Shantung-Honan-Hopeh area the Japanese last week were showing none of the decisive "punch" to which harried Chinese have become resigned at Hankow, the capital of Chiang. Spirits were high on the eve of a Kuomintang Congress scheduled for this week to adjust points of difference with the Chinese Communists. Of China and Japan able Chicago Daily Newsman A. T. Steele flashed from Hankow: "Each side believes that the other is on the brink of an internal breakdown, but each is dead wrong as far as the immediate future is concerned. .... The Government here is scarcely recognizable...