Word: soochow
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Dates: during 1927-1927
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...immediate defenses went over to the Southern enemy, ordered the 2,000 troops under his command to withdraw back toward Shantung whence they came only a fortnight ago (TIME, March 7). Simultaneously the Southern generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek launched a swift attack to cut the Shanghai-Nanking railway at Soochow. The fall of Soochow (reported but unconfirmed) would cut off the Northern armies of the "two great Changs"† from hastening to defend Shanghai and leave the Shanghai area defenseless against the conquering Southern "Nationalist" or "Cantonese...
...Soochow University Second Middle School Shanghai, China...