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...miles on a direct rail line north of Hankow, the Japanese forces last week made only small gains. Retreating Chinese had cut dykes on the Yellow River north of the city and the saffron waters of "China's Sorrow" poured over the low-lying, sandy ground outside Cheng-chow, bogged down Japan's mechanized advance...
Resident fellowships went to Tekun Cheng, a graduate of Yenching University, China; James R. Rightover 1G, of Salida, Colorado: Yen-yu Huaug 1G, of Canton, China; Yuch-hwa Lin 1G, Foochow, China; John K. Musgrave Jr. 2G, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Neil M. Rawlinson 2G, Montebello, California; Edwin O. Reischaner 7G, of Tokyo, Japan; and Theodore H. White '38, of Dorchester...
...troops held towns far on the other side of the Hindenburg Line, and Chinese Communist forces were operating in Hopeh last week with such success that at times the Japanese lost briefly towns and villages along their main rail lines of supply & conquest. Impudent, chuckling, the Chinese Communist Yu Cheng-tsao cracked that his bands are hunting Japanese in a "Communist State" just formed by "7,000,000 Chinese farmers" in Hopeh...
This week three fresh Chinese divisions from Nanking, defending the great supply base and military junction of Shihkiach-wang under General Cheng Chien, Chief of the Chinese General Staff, claimed to be holding out against "Japanese onslaughts so terrific that the Huto River is literally running with blood." Tokyo officially claimed to have taken Shihkiach-wang. Japanese war correspondents lyrically compared the action to "General von Mackensen's crossing of the Dunajec in the World War," prematurely boasted "this seals the fate of North China...
...highly significant Chinese general today is moonfaced, bespectacled Yang Hu-cheng. As battle lines were drawn near Peiping last week and sporadic warfare crackled, General Yang was very far away, just landing in San Francisco with his tight-skinned little Chinese wife and their bright, button-eyed boy. Gesturing expansively with a pale Corona, General Yang welcomed alert California reporters. They wanted a good look at this celebrated Chinese commander who, when he found that another Chinese commander had kidnapped Chinese Dictator-&-Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, acted without a moment's hesitation and hijacked the kidnapping (TIME...