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...plea, the Executive Council made the first sacrifice, a decision not to send a Chinese exhibition to New York's 1939 World's Fair because of the "uncertainties of transportation." The supreme sacrifice was made by General Yu Han-mou, charged with the collapse of Canton's defenses, who was erroneously reported to have surrendered to the Japanese after the city's fall. According to Japanese reports, he was executed by the Chinese...
Japanese troops continued to press out from Hankow, where some 5,300 captured Chinese soldiers are soon to erect a memorial to commemorate the Japanese conquest. At week's end Japanese forces, driving southward along the Canton-Hankow rail line, had captured the strategic city of Yochow, 122 miles southwest of Hankow, and the northeastern gateway to Hunan Province where Chiang Kai-shek has established new military headquarters...
...Thaddeus V. Strezynski, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Jesse B. Thomas, Georgetown, Mass., Orson H. Thomas, Cambridge, Mass., Robert F. Thurrell Jr., Wolfeboro, N.H., Lester H. Tobin, Lynn, Mass., John E. Tully, Boston, Mass., Kenneth R. Volkman, West Somerville, Mass., Thomas H. White, Cambridge, Mass., William H. Wood Jr., Canton, Mass...
Japanese statesmen tend to become highly intoxicated on moderate victories. Last week the fall of Canton and Hankow acted on Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye and the Japanese Foreign Office like a triple round of old-fashioneds at a meeting of a Browning Club. It is no new thing for Japanese jingoes outside the Cabinet to boast that in a few years Japan will kick the West out of the East, but for the Premier and Foreign Office to go so far as they went in Tokyo last week was unprecedented...
...Daughaday Jr. '40, of Winnetka, Illinois; Edward M. Davis Jr. '40, of Winter Park, Florida; Joseph T. Doyle '39, of Providence; Charles D. Duffy Jr. '39, of South Jacksonville, Florida; Richard D. Edwards '41, of Pittsburgh; Warick E. Elrod Jr. '39, of Atlanta, Georgia; William E. Ernst '41, of Canton, Ohio; Sheridan S. Evans '41, of Zeigler, Illinois...