Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other words, the harassing Chinese guerrilla tactics recently launched (TIME, Oct. 11) on a large scale, had evidently cut some Japanese supply lines. The Chinese guerrillas have to keep on the move, waging hectic hit-and-run warfare, and messages from their commanders last week were reaching Nanking, the Chinese Capital, as much as a fortnight late. As the chief hit-and-run generals, emerged "Red Napoleon" Chu Teh and "100 Victories" Wei Li-huang. They were harassing the Japanese shoulder to shoulder last week, although four years ago the Chinese Government was offering $100,000 for the "Red Napoleon...
Serving modestly on the general staff headed by her husband, Poet-Critic Allen Tate (see p. 81), Kentucky-born Caroline Gordon belongs to that well-educated guerrilla band of Southern regionalists who about a decade ago took up where the Confederate Army left off in its fight against the Yankee cultural and economic invasion. Chief sallies have consisted of nostalgic biographies, fiction and poetry celebrating the feudal charm of the Old South, collective manifestoes (I Take My Stand) advocating return to an agrarian economy, magazines (The Southern Review et al.) and poetry societies whose interests are about equally divided between...
...Garden of Adonis Author Gordon unexpectedly opens up at close contemporary range to kill off the Yankee opinion which attributes the evils of sharecropping to Southern landlords. That few casualties bite the dust is due chiefly to Guerrilla-Author Gordon's scattering fire, in her overanxiety to wipe out the entire enemy at one try. A possible source of her anxious haste may be the fear of being shot in the back by such unreliable Southern allies as William Faulkner and Erskine Caldwell...
...united more closely than ever. Renewed confidence at Nanking brought enthusiastic Chinese press stories, to be accepted with reserve, which boasted that erstwhile Chinese Communist troops had recaptured in Shansi the Yenman Pass and the Pingshing Pass and "trapped 50,000 Japanese." Apparently the Chinese troops were staging effective guerrilla raids in territory which nominally has been "conquered" by Japan, and such harassing tactics may prove the best against an invader who last week had advanced so far that the various lines of military supply Japan must keep open had reached a combined length of over 1,000 miles...
Front No. 4. Below Toledo, for a full 150 mi. along the rolling hills of Estremadura to Mérida, again no formal line exists, but there is no unofficial truce here as in the similar sector to the north. Cavalry raids and guerrilla fighting are an almost daily occurrence. Only a shortage of men on both sides prevents Rightists from consolidating their line properly, keeps Leftists from a forceful drive through to Badajoz and the Portuguese frontier which would break Rightist communications between Franco's capital at Salamanca and the important southern strongholds of Seville and Cordoba...