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Japanese generals and even privates had almost the most fun of their lives last week. It was fun to see Chinchow. the last Chinese stronghold in Manchuria, abandoned by 84.000 Chinese soldiers so intelligent that not even the word "Motherland" could make them pause to discharge their 58 pieces of artillery or to fire their 8,000,000 rounds of rifle ammunition...
...Japanese columns swung into Chinchow it was fun to see the Chinese populace, yellow if ever a populace was, waving Japanese flags hastily home-made during the night to appease the Japanese conquerors, men who still fight for the word and substance of "Glory...
...TIME, Nov. 2). This choice, however, was not made definite last week and the new Government was strongly urged to "fight Japan" by one of China's doughtiest war lords, Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang who offered to swing his private army into the fight and attempt to defend Chinchow (see below...
Japan's juggernaut, clanking slowly across frozen South Manchuria toward Chinchow last week, was chauffeured by the Empire's prodigiously popular hero of the hour, Lieut. General Jiro Tamon. Month ago he broke the power of China in North Manchuria by routing fleet General Ma Chan-shan and capturing Tsitsihar (TIME, Nov. 30). That was easy. General Ma had no effective artillery and only 23,000 Chinese soldiers. Chinchow last week looked hard-that is if its 84,000 Chinese defenders would fight. Japanese scouting planes reported two separate systems of Chinese entrenchments defending Chinchow, complete with...
...Japanese G. H. Q. in Mukden, tight-lipped General Shigeru Honjo insisted his troops were moving out "to clear the country of bandits," but added that Chinese evacuation of Chinchow "is now absolutely imperative." Seemingly he thought that Chinchow might be taken without bloodshed, the Chinese soldiers merely scattering like chaff. Cheerily a Japanese aid-de-camp spoke of "taking over Chinchow by Christmas...