Word: taierhchwang
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Shantung Campaign. The historic first defeat in modern times of a major Japanese force, when Chinese fortnight ago drove the invaders out of Taierhchwang and chased them 20 miles back into Yihsien, brought down overwhelming Japanese reinforcements from 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...
...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...
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...
...Taierhchwang--Chinese expand their great victory in South Shantung Province--Thousands of Japanese killed--The Chinese reported besieging trapped Japanese garrison in the provincial capital, Tsinan-Fu--Japanese reported rushing reinforcements from north and west...