Word: taierhchwang
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...much as any other factor, had brought the nation unbowed 'to 1944's Double Seventh. China's soldiers (5,000,000 in all) had withstood hunger, disease, a continuous inequality of arms, commanders' inanition, retreat after retreat. Yet they had won notable defensive battles (Taierhchwang, Chang-sha), and had never finally given...
...Unpredictable is the Yellow's fickle course. In the last 100 years "China's Sorrow" has wandered about 700 miles up & down the China coast. After the Battle of Taierhchwang (1938) the Chinese, not nature, broke the south dyke and sent the wayward river against the Jap invader, into the course it still pursues...
Office Soldier. Itagaki matured in an army which was singularly selfless, yet afforded wide scope to men of his particular stamp. He was not a great fighting man. In fact, in 1938 at the famed battle of Taierhchwang (TIME, April 11, 1938 et ante), the Chinese made a military fool of him, trapping his forces and killing 25,000 Japanese in a battle which may yet go down as one of the determining conflicts of history...
...Osgood Field. Equipped with an accompanying commentary written by Dudley Nichols and recited by Actor Fredric March, The 400,000,000 sets out to show that China not only deserves to win its war but has a chance to do so, reaches a climax with the Chinese recapture of Taierhchwang...
...year and a half since the "incident" at Marco Polo Bridge, Peiping, Japan's armies have marched through half of China's 18 provinces, captured all the major Chinese cities. China has won one major victory, at Taierhchwang. The score looks overwhelmingly one-sided. But in spite of that score, the three latest books on China all predict a Chinese victory...