Word: chengchow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chengchow, a rail junction for east-west and north-south traffic in Honan, two Shanghai cotton brokers reported "all was quiet." Their warehouse of cotton had been untouched by the Communists. Said a Red officer: "When the kettle belonged to Chiang, we tried to break it; now that it is ours, we want to preserve...
Where was elusive Chen Yi headed? Weary Nationalists ticked off some of his possible alternatives. He could rendezvous with General Liu and then wheel on the pivotal railroad junction of Chengchow. Or he might plunge toward Suchow, bastion of the Nanking-Shanghai defense area. Or he could drive down to Hankow. He might even decide to stand and fight...
Broken Cross. More bad news came from the "Chengchow cross," where the east-west Lunghai railroad intersects the rail line running south from Peiping to Hankow. By December, two Communist columns had broken the south and east arms of the cross. (The northern arm had been broken since the end of the Japanese war.) Another Communist army moving southward cut the west arm. The Communists appeared to have made good on their promise to "nail the Nationalists to the Chengchow cross...
...flatlands of China's Honan Province, near Chengchow, a tiny rivulet of muddy water oozed into a dried-up channel and meandered sluggishly toward Pohai Gulf, some 400 miles to the northeast. The rivulet, a man-made branch of the Yellow River, was the first fruit of the giant flood-control effort to thrust "China's Sorrow" back into its pre-1938 bed. In Shanghai, UNRRA Engineer Oliver J. Todd, director of the project (TIME, June 17), contemplated news of the trickle with mixed emotions. "Todd Almighty" knew that this was no dream come true; in fact...
...first nine days, the Japanese Army shot out a dozen tentacles to the west and south, captured 1,800 sq.mi. of wheat-blanketed Honan flatland, took the town of Chengchow (prewar pop. 700,000), seized the historic Hulap pass to the west. Now the Chinese looked unhappily to the summer, when a Japanese-held rebuilt railway from Chengchow southward may well be used to feed a new offensive in central China...