Word: tangshan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...perilously near to the vital railway, had almost encircled Suchow. While Chinese defenses North of the railway held fast, even Chinese communiqués admitted Japanese advances by mobile columns from the South. At week's end the Japanese claimed that one column had cut the railroad at Tangshan, 50 miles west of Suchow. There the Japanese Southern Army hoped to meet the Japanese Northern Army and close the western end of the Lunghai corridor...