Word: tungkwan
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...cushion the new line against pressure from the west, the Japanese seemed also to be building a defense belt beyond the railroad. There was a worse, though still remote possibility: from Loyang, the Japanese might try to push on westward through the famed Tungkwan mountain pass, spill into the loess plain of Shansi. Then even China's truck roads to Russia would be in peril...
Toward the Foe. It was still early morning when Willkie walked through the streets of deserted Tungkwan toward the river's edge. He ducked through a hole and entered the labyrinth of dugouts and trenches which are the strongest Chinese fortification in North China. Communication trenches were cut deep in the yellow ground and covered with logs and earth. They led to a point overlooking the river bend. The trenches fed into concrete rifle and machine-gun emplacements, from which a screen of fire could be dropped on any attempted river crossing. Willkie's burly shoulders...
Chinese officials minimized the Japanese rail-link snipping at Szeshui, pointed out that there still remained open a five-day highway connection between Hankow and Sian. They announced that at Tungkwan, where the river crooks like an elbow between Shensi and Shansi Provinces, Chinese troops were still holding the main body of Japanese troops to the opposite bank of the river...
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