Word: taierhchwang
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Dates: during 1938-1938
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...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...
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...