Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...then, encouraged by reports of Chinese success in the Lunghai area, Tsinan's Chinese police revolted. Grabbing their pistols, the only arms allowed them by the Japanese, they barricaded themselves in the suburbs. Coolies and market girls whipped off their disguises, rushed to join them. Three Chinese guerrilla columns suddenly appeared outside and, at last reports, had succeeded in gaining a foothold on three sides...
...only foreigners with Communist guerrilla forces are a German instructor and a Turkish doctor. "The Chinese generally believed I was a Soviet staff officer!" laughed Agnes Smedley. "I didn't see a single Russian...
...only 40,000 men stood off four attacks by Chiang Kai-shek's armies. For this success, Mao had a succinct reason: The misery of the peasants, whose desperate lot (their taxes were collected as far as 60 years in advance) led them to support the Reds' guerrilla warfare...
...Snow. He quotes Mao's prophecy that even though Japan should occupy half of China and blockade the coast, "we would still be far from defeated." As in fighting Chiang Kaishek, Communist Mao would retreat & retreat, luring the lengthening Japanese columns into the interior, trusting that time and guerrilla tactics would finally snap the tightening thread of Japanese morale...
...spot to which Generalissimo & Mme Chiang have fled was a military secret this week. Their job is now to wage against Japan such guerrilla warfare as General Sandino hurled from his Nicaraguan mountains against the forces of Calvin Coolidge. To such a resourceful man as Chiang the fight is not necessarily hopeless. Japan is not the U. S. Her resources have already been badly strained and it is conceivable that if the fight is sufficiently long and costly, it may break her economically. Nor is China Nicaragua. She is so large that any invader inevitably has long lines open...