Word: chungtiao
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...three solid weeks he rode ten hours a day, sometimes on ledge-narrow mountain trails, to reach the Chin Valley. He got there just in time to send us one of the most important dispatches of the war -about how the Chinese had routed the Japs in the Chungtiao Mountains. (The Japs haven't completely occupied Shansi...
...most important and least noticed dispatches of the whole war in China last week hit the back pages of U. S. newspapers. It was merely a pair of sentences to the effect that Chinese troops had lured a Japanese army into perilous passes of the Chungtiao Mountains, at the foot of Shansi Province, rolled down on them from advantageous positions, and in four days slaughtered 2,000 men. Even allowing for exaggeration, this was a major Chinese victory...
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