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Soochow (Suzhou; 120.603E
31.296N) is a city and
communications junction west of Shanghai
in eastern China.
The city was to be the anchor of a new defense line following the Japanese breakout from Shanghai in November 1937, but it proved impossible for Chinese commanders to regain control of their routed and panic-stricken troops, and the city fell without a fight on 19 November. According to the Tokyo Military Tribunal, the occupying Japanese then massacred a number of civilians.
The city remained in Japanese hands through the
remainder of the Pacific War.
References
IMTFE
Judgement (1948; accessed 2011-7-1)
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