Word: tso-yi
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...battles since the World War, and fighting it almost alone. Many times during the week Japanese army reinforcements were reported on their way to Shanghai but almost all the Japanese reinforcements actually seen were on their way north to strengthen the forces around Peiping where bullet-headed General Fu Tso-yi, Chairman of Suiyuan Province, has been holding up the Japanese advance for nearly the past fortnight in the narrow gorges of Nankow Pass. With other northern warlords coming to help him last week, a general Chinese offensive was about to be attempted...
...Bullet-headed General Fu Tso-yi, chairman of Suiyuan Province, with 4,000 men was still holding out against Japanese attacks in the narrow gorges of Nankow Pass...
...China's adjacent Suiyan Province, where Japanese penetration was halted four months ago by Chinese troops, consternation reigned last week. Clarioned Suiyan's Chinese Governor General Fu Tso-yi: "We shall countenance no threat to the integrity of this province!" He mobilized and reviewed the whole of Suiyan's military might "in tribute to Chinese soldiers slain in the 1936 defeat of the Mongol horde." To Suiyan's rebuke, China's Nanking Government added another. Declared Wang Ching-wei, chairman of the Kuomintang (National Revolutionary Party) and onetime Foreign Minister: "Nanking is fully determined...
...striving to preserve themselves from Communists against whom they are preparing for a war of self-defense." Overlooked by the Tokyo spokesman was the fact that the nearest Chinese Communist army was 400 miles from Mongokuo, is headed in the wrong direction, that Suiyan's Governor General Fu Tso-yi is rabidly antiCommunist...
...week Dictator Chiang could boast that every province in China had answered his call. Notably the famed but for several years retired "Christian Marshal" Feng Yu-hsiang showed up. together with the Big Three of North China : the "Model Governor" of Shansi, General Yen Hsi-shan; Governor General Fu Tso-yi, provincial chairman of Suiyan; and the latest admirable and exemplary governor produced by unpredictable China, General Han Fu-chu of Shantung.* They were said by Nanking officials to have promised the Dictator they would stand by him in case of war with Japan...