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...Chief of Staff to the Generalissimo. Last week after a final patching up of broken friendships in Nanking, General Li went north to command 50,000 troops he had sent ahead from the south to try to stop the Japanese in Shantung. Shantung's Governor, famed General Han Fu-chu whom Japanese have been trying to win over by bribes, thus had to make up his mind last week, clarioned: "I urge all under my command to vow resistance to Japan until...
...approached so near its capital, Tsinan, last week that prosperous Chinese families were fleeing with their household goods by rail to the port of Tsingtao. Farther inland General Yen Hsi-shan, famed "Model Governor" of Shansi Province, was reported to have ordered the execution of his subordinate General Li Fu-ying, Commander of the 61st Chinese National Division, for abandoning Tatungfu to the Japanese without a fight after being ordered to hold it at all costs. Under terrific Japanese bombing was Governor Yen's capital Taiyuan. In Suiyuan Province still farther inland winter has already come, but Mongolian troops...
Exactly Hollywood's idea of a Chinese War Lord, burly in figure, greasy but intelligent of face, and with a thin mustache is General Han Fu-chu. Japanese have $100,000,000 invested in the Chinese province of which he is Governor, famed Shantung which juts out into the Yellow Sea facing Japan like the chin of a placid prize-fighter all ready to be clouted. Last week Japanese bombing planes continued to hurl at Tsinan. Han's capital, not death-dealing bombs but attractive offers encased in protective lengths of bamboo which rattled enticingly as they struck...
...advancing war machine had crossed the border into Shantung, and War Lord Han was racked by a dilemma in which he stood to lose one of China's richest plums, a flourishing province worth at least $20,000,000 yearly to even a Governor reputed "honest" like Han Fu...
...greatest battles since the World War, and fighting it almost alone. Many times during the week Japanese army reinforcements were reported on their way to Shanghai but almost all the Japanese reinforcements actually seen were on their way north to strengthen the forces around Peiping where bullet-headed General Fu Tso-yi, Chairman of Suiyuan Province, has been holding up the Japanese advance for nearly the past fortnight in the narrow gorges of Nankow Pass. With other northern warlords coming to help him last week, a general Chinese offensive was about to be attempted...