Word: tsinan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Twenty old U. S. residents of China released in Shanghai a survey of conditions in the nine Japanese-occupied Chinese cities of Nanking, Kaifeng, Suchow, Chinkiang, Canton, Soochow, Hangchow, Hankow and Tsinan. The cities' pre-war combined population of 5,800,000 had shrunk, they said, to 2,400,000. The Chinese puppet administrations were "weak, inefficient and corrupt," business was depressed, there was widespread unemployment, prostitution was rampant and narcotics were sold openly under Japanese auspices. Their conclusion: "The whole former trend of constructive development has been shattered, and devastation, chaos and oppression brought in a regime which...
More harrowing last week to Japanese strategy than any U. S. gunboat could possibly be was the crescendo of Chinese guerrilla activity behind Japanese lines. Tsinan, Shantung's capital, was attacked fiercely by Chinese partisans. Chuyung, 26 miles north of Nanking, was temporarily captured by raiding guerrillas. Most daring guerrilla raid of all was one staged in western Shanghai. Between Nanking and Shanghai were still operating last week no less than 43,000 Chinese regulars in detachments which changed their positions nightly...
...Yenching University in Peiping, Lingnan University in Canton, Hua Chung College in Wu-chang. West China Union University in Chengtu, Hwa Nan College and Fukien Christian University in Foochow, Cheeloo University in Tsinan, University of Nanking and Ginling College in Nanking, and St. John's University, University of Shanghai, Soochow University and Hangchow Christian College in the Shanghai area. This does not include Rockefeller Foundation's Peiping Union Medical College, various Catholic institutions (European as well as U. S.-supported...
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...
Since the Chinese knew that powerful Japanese rescue forces were on the way from Tsingtao and Tientsin via Tsinan, beating their way down railways harassed by Chinese Communist guerillas, Yihsien had to be captured quickly if at all. Therefore some Chinese Christian soldiers formed on the spot "The Good Friday Battalion," vowed to take Yihsien before Easter Sunday or die in the attempt...