Word: suchow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Taierchwang was conservatively estimated by neutral foreigners at between 7,000 and 10,000, but the Chinese Generalissimo's headquarters estimated that the Imperial Japanese Government had now massed half-a-million men for the purpose of attempting this week to wipe out their defeats, smash through to Suchow. Best reconstruction from the battlefield of the Taierchwang fighting was sent by Chicago Daily Newsman A. T. Steele: "0verconfidence and contempt for the Chinese army had much to do with the Japanese defeat. The Chinese set a trap with Taierchwang as the bait and the Japanese bit, and bit hard...
...along the Grand Canal sector north of Suchow, furiously-battling Chinese surged forward in frontal attacks. At Taierhchwang, scene of back-&-forth fighting for a fortnight, the Chinese hurled new Soviet tanks, fresh German-trained troops into the line, recaptured the city. At last reports the Japanese had dug in at Yihsien, 20 miles to the rear, where they were attempting to consolidate their forces in the area. Chinese armies hammered against the town in an effort to drive the Japanese farther back...
...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...
Fiercest back -& -forth fighting took place at Taierhchwang, 45 miles northeast of Suchow. Time & again the town changed hands and before long the ancient walls and mud huts were leveled. At last reports the Japanese had occupied the city, entered Kiangsu Province...
Since this blocking of the Japanese came two weeks after the Imperial Government launched their big spring offensive to take Suchow, the checkmated Japanese War Machine was so far behind schedule last week as to stand disgraced, particularly since at all times the Japanese have had command of the air. Every Chinese was fit to burst with pride. Over-optimistic Chinese newspapers predicted the Japanese will now be driven back upon Tsinan. One who knows the real situation is Mme Chiang Kaishek, "Wife of 1937," who is at Hong Kong while her husband, Generalissimo Chiang, directs the desperate resistance...