Word: shihkiach
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...Walk, Don't Run." At Shihkiach-wang, railroad hub on the Peiping-Han-kow line some 175 miles south of Peiping, an American reported perceptible economic progress since, his visit six months earlier. The Communists had started many small industries-weaving shops, flour mills, brick kilns, foundries, machine shops-which are flourishing. He found wealthy merchants still operating. Many women had permanents which they got in reopened beauty shops...
This week three fresh Chinese divisions from Nanking, defending the great supply base and military junction of Shihkiach-wang under General Cheng Chien, Chief of the Chinese General Staff, claimed to be holding out against "Japanese onslaughts so terrific that the Huto River is literally running with blood." Tokyo officially claimed to have taken Shihkiach-wang. Japanese war correspondents lyrically compared the action to "General von Mackensen's crossing of the Dunajec in the World War," prematurely boasted "this seals the fate of North China...
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