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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...preceding ten days, not only took the city of Paoting (see map, p. 17) with its huge walls and 80,000 inhabitants but surrounded it, so that as Chinese troops fled out the back gates Japanese machine gun crews "annihilated them to the last man." Even so, conquering General Count Juichi Terauchi's army had gotten slightly behind its timetable, the Japanese lines were lengthening ominously as they stabbed further into China, and on the whole so many retreating Chinese managed to escape and fight again another day that Japanese headquarters were tense with strain-afraid of sudden intervention...
...ante) and revamp it into a Five-Power Pact by adding Poland. In this scheme for organizing a unity of states in Europe proper without the Soviet Union, the Dictators were reputed in London to have last week the goodwill of British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, could count on brilliant Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinoff to make plenty more of the trouble for them he started hatching at Nyon...
What LaGuardia partisans count on chiefly, however, is the independent vote of which little is registered at the primaries. In November upwards of 2,000,000 votes are expected to be cast compared to less than 850,000 last week. Of some 1,150,000 voters who did not take part in the primaries, LaGuardia may easily win a majority. With a large following in union labor he may poll 200,000 or 300,000 Labor votes alone. But having polled only about 125,000 votes in both the primaries he will need a landslide among non-primary voters...
...north, most important theatre of war, Japan's luck was good last week. General Count Juichi Terauchi, former Minister of War and now commander-in-chief in North China, was able to send a column of 60,000 men, mechanized, well-equipped, headed by cavalry, southwest from Peiping to cut the vitally important Peiping-Hankow railroad at Chochow...
Chief of Staff: Alfred, Count von Schlieffen, who planned Germany's World War strategy...