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...Chinese quarters of Tientsin. By 10:20 a. m. what Associated Press called "the most destructive and longest aerial bombardment ever undertaken by Japanese Army"* fliers had ringed Tientsin's foreign concessions with dense smoke clouds belching up from the Chinese quarters. Cabled New York Times veteran Hallett Abend: "The Tientsin crisis is definitely over!" Nonetheless it had provided the unique spectacle of a commander forced to bomb the daylights out of a city he was using at the same time as his base for an invasion. In the harbor meanwhile a perky little Japanese armored launch chuffed...
...Deal with some such words as: "Our American people seem to me a nation of jazz-loving gum-chewers, profligate instalment-plan buyers, poltroon capitulators to racketeers, gasoline-wasters and coffee-addicts." *See the ablest recent Far East volume, Can China Survive?, by New York Times correspondents Hallett Abend & Anthony J. Billingham (Ives Washburn, Inc. New York, $3). *Died 1908. Her Majesty has just been made the subject of a brilliant biography, The Last Empress by His Excellency Daniele Vare who was then an Italian legation official at Peking (Doubleday, Doran, $3). *Shantung's previous satrap "The Monster...
...York Times Correspondent Hallett Abend reported that the following message had been handed foreign diplomats in Peiping...
...Colonel was immersed, but his wife remained high & dry, stepping from airplane to lifeboat. (Hallett Abend of the New York Times...
...spite of the denial, Welt am Abend (Communist organ) persisted in circulating as valid news coming "from a highly placed authority" the report that Old Paul was secretly forming a militaristic cabal, which would permanently dissolve the Reichstag, erect a formal dictatorship...