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...Japanese drove new spearheads into the Shanghai-Hankow-Canton triangle of southeast China today and appeared to be making continued progress in their whole effort to crush all Generalissimo Chaing Kai-shek's forces in this great region...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: But Japs Pinch China | 6/3/1942 | See Source »

...Japanese appeared to be making rapid progress today in their campaign to clear major Chinese forces from the great Canton-Hankow-Shanghai triangle of southeast China and it was obvious that the position of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek's harassed government in Chungking was becoming increasingly difficult...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Japs Harass Chinese Forces | 6/1/1942 | See Source »

...School, Newtonville; Richard L. Kaye, 17, of Newton; Newton High School, Newtonville; Edward J. Leonard, 16, of Jamaica Plain; Public Latin School, Boston; Melvin Maddocks, 18, of Needham; Roxbury Latin School, West Roxbury; Lawrence G. Raisz, 16, of Cambridge; Browne and Nichols School, Cambridge; John L. Shurtleff, 17, of Canton; Groton School, Groton...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 39 WIN NATIONAL HONOR STIPENDS | 5/29/1942 | See Source »

...very keen at night, rose up and attacked. They raided Shanghai, Nanking, Hangchow, Nanchang, Ningpo, Wuhu, Amoy. They tore up the rails of the Nanchang-Kiukiang Railway on the central front, tore down 2,000 assorted yards of Japanese telephone and telegraph lines, blew up four bridges. In Canton, down south, they had killed 500 Japanese, had blown up the telephone exchange...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF CHINA: A Different May | 5/18/1942 | See Source »

Henry D. and Jonathan M. Parmenter Scholarship: F. A. W. Hoffman do Vagujhely, of New York City, and Grays Hall; Saul G. Marias, of Brooklyn, and Matthews Hall; Samuel P. Perry, Jr., of Boston; Marvin H. Slcisinger of Pittsburgh, and Walker House; Edward W. Wagner, of Canton, Ohio, and the Union...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 9 Freshmen Given Mid-Year Stipends | 4/14/1942 | See Source »

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