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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chinese busy at one place, Kaifeng, while they suddenly last week resumed a halted offensive at another, this time along the Tientsin-Pukow railroad, 175 miles east of Kaifeng and 125 miles from the Yellow Sea. Japanese forces hurled themselves southward along the railway in an attempt to capture Suchow, strategic junction of the Lunghai and Tientsin-Pukow lines and main defense centre of the "Hindenburg Line." Furiously battling Chinese sought to stem the advance by hammering away with repeated flank attacks until some 30,000 were reported killed on both sides. By week's end Japanese planes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: New Offensive | 3/28/1938 | See Source »

...North China, meanwhile, the 400,000 Chinese troops were holding off the Japanese advance in the Suchow sector with some success. Large Japanese forces were then found to be sweeping around their flank some distance inland, and neutral experts debated whether the 400,000 would be trapped, routed, or might succeed in withdrawing in good order. Although the Japanese flanking movement came mostly down along the Peiping-Hankow Railway, Chinese guerilla troops recaptured last week a 75-mile section of that railway in territory nominally "conquered" by Japan. Gloomy Chinese blew up the longest steel bridge in China to keep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: 400,000 Trapped? | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

Chinese newspapers said the Generalissimo was in personal command of 400,000 troops defending his "Hindenburg Line" near Suchow (TIME, Feb. 14). In this sector the Japanese advance launched fortnight ago was proceeding cautiously last week, Japanese artillery blasting the way for Japanese troops. The Chinese, although greatly outnumbering the Japanese, appeared decisively inferior in artillery and aviation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Both Through! | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

...Japanese advance which rolled down through Shantung intending to capture Suchow (TIME, Jan. 17) was badly behind schedule last week and Chinese guerilla warfare was getting into its stride, in both north and central China. Large guerilla forces reportedly recaptured Hoh-sien, some 35 miles up the Yangtze from Nanking, surrounded Tsining in Shantung...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Shamelessness of Generals | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

...Chinese Generalissimo & Mme Chiang Kai-shek went separate ways last week from Hankow, the de facto capital of China. She flew 600 miles to the comparative safety of British Hong Kong in the South. He flew 275 miles to the hottest battle sector in the North, near Suchow in fertile Shantung, "China's Breadbasket." Tighter censorship, both Chinese and Japanese, reduced most war news to rumor. It was, however, credible if conflictingly rumored...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Shantung, Hong Kong | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

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