Tsaoyang

The Hupeh provincial authorities have recently completed the construction of a highway from Siangyang to Shasi, a distance of approximately 200 miles; an extension from Siangyang to Tsaoyang has been completed, and this road is being extended through to Huayuan on the Peking-Hankow Railway, a total distance of 170 miles.

1926, Julean Arnold, China: A Commercial and Industrial Handbook, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, page 441

“It is stated that a general drive against the Kuominchun invaders has already started from Tsaoyang, in North Hupeh, near the Hunan border, and General Liu Shih, the Wuhan garrison commander, expresses confidence that his forces, 100,000 in number, are adequate to deal with the situation.

1929 November 23, “Government Faced with Triple War Threat”, in The China Weekly Review, volume L, number 12, →OCLC, page 468, column 1

I have the honor to enclose a copy of a communication that has been received from the Reverend Peter Valder of the Lutheran Brethren Mission at Tsaoyang, Hupeh, giving the details of an attack upon the mission at that place by troops endeavoring to find quarters.

1930 June 11, F. P. Lockhart, “The Consul General at Hankow (Lockhart) to the Minister in China (Johnson)”, in Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1930, Volume II, United States Department of State, page 132

In the see-saw battle for Tsaoyang in May the Japanese suffered 45,000 wounded or killed, and they had to pull reinforcements from Manchukuo before take Ichang (→ 17).

1940 June 12, “Heavy losses as Japan advances into heart of China”, in World War II: Day by Day, DK, published 2004, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 94, column 4

On 5 December, HUPEH DAILY frontpaged a report on the Tsaoyang County CCP Committee giving free rein to the masses to thoroughly expose and criticize the towering crimes of the "gang of four" in laying their hands on Tsaoyang and added an editor's note.

1976 December 9 [1976 December 6], “Hupeh Daily Criticizes Local 'Gang' Activities”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 238, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Wuhan Hupeh Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: Central-South Region, page H 1