Word: suchow
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...crucial battle of the war was still being fought, however, around Suchow, the junction city of the Tientsin-Pukow and the Lunghai Railways in Central China. In that vicinity the Japanese Army, doubled to a strength of 200,000 men in the last two weeks, was getting perilously near to the vital railway, had almost encircled Suchow. While Chinese defenses North of the railway held fast, even Chinese communiqués admitted Japanese advances by mobile columns from the South. At week's end the Japanese claimed that one column had cut the railroad at Tangshan, 50 miles west...
...eastern half of China's great fortified Lung-Hai line, defending Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Sheck's provisional capital at Hankow, was collapsing today under terrific blows from four Japanese armies. All advices agreed the Chinese were losing the greatest battle of the war and that the key city of Suchow-Fu would be fully occupied by the Japanese during this week
...main battle of the war last week was still being fought northeast of Suchow, from 15 to 50 miles north of the eastern end of the Lunghai Railway. Into an area more than half the size of Long Island, General Li Tsung-jen, commander-in-chief of the Fifth War Area, had poured about 650,000 Chinese soldiers for what six months ago would have been a real anomaly-a Chinese offensive. Opposing them were 100,000 well-trained, well-armed Japanese troops...
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...
...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...