Word: suchow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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SHANGHAI--Reinforced Japanese armies battered Chinese lines today along an irregular front of more than 1500 miles from Ningpo, south of Shanghai, to Suchow-Pu, in east central China, and Puchow-Fu, in southwest Shansi Province. The full length of the vital Lung-Hai railway, defending Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek's Provisional capital in Hankow, still remained in Chinese hands, however...
Japanese soldiers advanced only by yards last week on the 30-mile zigzag front along the Grand Canal north of Suchow, key point in the defense of the crucially important Lunghai Railway in north central China. While General Li Tsung-jen, commander-in-chief of the Chinese Central Army, poured thousands of fresh troops into the heavy fortifications along the Yi River, the Japanese, far removed from their bases, showed signs of weariness. The Chinese "Hindenburg Line" guarding the railway still held fast...
...Japanese aim is to clear the Tient-sin-Pukow Railway so the Japanese puppets of Peiping can be united with the equally submissive Nanking puppets. At one point north of Suchow the Japanese advance guard was stalled 15 miles from the Lunghai Railway. At another point south of Suchow a Japanese column was reported within 20 miles of the line. The southern force was small, however. Between it and the main southern army were scores of miles of hostile territory. A gap of at least a hundred miles had to be filled before the two puppet governments could meet...
...begun on Generalissimo Chiang KaiShek's fortified Lun-Hai railway line, defending his provisional capital in Hankow. The Japanese had captured a dozen towns and appeared this time to have thrown enough men and equipment into the series of battles raging at points on a great semicircular front around Suchow-Fu to make the Chinese positions around that key city almost untenable...
...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 they will have a stranglehold on North Central China, gravely menacing Hankow...