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...that one of the many Ma family warlords sent word through the hills and in three weeks raised a fanatical army of 60,000 Chinese Moslems. Looting and terrorizing, the rebels nearly conquered a northwest China empire half as big as Europe before being defeated by the "Christian General," Feng Yu-hsiang. Last week another of the Ma clan, once-rambunctious General Ma Puching, peacefully accepted appointment as Commissioner of Reclamation in the dreary swamplands of Chinghai Province near Tibet...
...Japanese had tried to make sure that hard-eyed General Pai Feng-hsiang and his army of 18,000 hard-riding cavalrymen would play no tricks. So the Japanese arranged a feast and invited the surly general. When the general died the same night, the Japanese said: "So sorry." Then they looked around for a friendlier leader...
Leland D. Burlingame, of Lebanon, N. H. S.B. U. of N. H.; Pao-tung Ching, of Shanghai, China, S.M. Purdue '40; George A. Clemow, of Billings, Mont., S.B. Montana State '40; Ping Chuan Feng, of Peiping, China, S.M. Yenching '34; Ewan W. Fletcher, S.M. '40, of Brooklyn, N. Y.; Robert E. Geauque, of St. Louis., S.M. Missouri '40; Vernon B. Hammer, of Portland, Ore., S.B. Washington '40; William Franklin, S.M. '40, of Brooklyn...
...came over at the rate of at least six a minute. Today's cannonade removed all doubt in the minds of observers as to the accuracy of Soviet artillery. Invariably one or two sighting shots were followed by a series of direct hits. . . . At the foot of Changku-feng Hill a village blazed fiercely. Hundreds of shells had scored direct hits...
Those of the 400,000,000 Chinese people who heard about it hailed with wild delight this magnificent success, their first major victory in ten months of war. Cracked China's famed "Christian General," General Feng Yu-hsiang: "The Japanese are soft-shelled turtles in a closed...