Word: taierhchwang
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...atmosphere of Hankow had been "gloomy as a morgue," but at noon on Independence Day spirits rose as Chinese G.H.Q. announced that near Teian, 100 miles from Hankow, some 10,000 Japanese had been "wiped out in a four-day battle greater than Taierhchwang." This was not subsequently confirmed, but within an hour after the announcement the previously silent streets of Hankow became a bedlam of exploding firecrackers amid which Chinese newsboys hopped about selling Independence Day "Victory Extras...
...firing is still heard as Chinese bands raid the outskirts. In its year in the field, the self-styled invincible Japanese Army met its first major defeat in modern military history as hordes of ill-equipped Chinese soldiers forced the invaders out of the now famed little town of Taierhchwang...
News trickling through from neutral and Chinese sources gave reasons for this Japanese loss of optimism and growing sense of desperate action. Although no clear-cut Chinese victory, such as the Taierhchwang capture last month, could be announced, Chinese forces gave every indication of unprecedented, coordinated military action in a series of minor successes throughout virtually the entire war area...