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...morally invalid because exacted under duress, that the Imperial Japanese Government last week issued the following urbane and reasoned 550 word official statement which would not deceive a Vermont woodchuck or a Georgia possum: "The present Sino-Japanese affair originated in an unwarranted attack by Chinese forces on Japanese garrison troops legitimately stationed in North China under rights clearly recognized by treaty...
Only 18 miles southwest of beleaguered Gijón another siege was ending its 14th month, but in this case the roles were reversed. At Oviedo, once a city of 70,000 people, a Rightist garrison was still holding out against a circling force of Asturian miners who have sworn to capture and kill Oviedo's commander, General Miguel Aranda "if we have to get him over the dead bodies of our own children...
Just before the beginning of the present war Miguel Aranda was in Madrid but he hustled back to Oviedo on orders from General Franco, took over the garrison of 2,000 men and seized the city. Ruthless Miguel Aranda may be, an able officer he certainly is. Spurred on by personal hatred for Aranda, forces of 8,000 and 10,000 men have besieged Oviedo, furrowing its streets and battering its houses with as many as 3,000 shells a day-while the Asturians still had munitions. For many weeks the city and its garrison were entirely cut off, every...
...murdered early this month, whereupon Japanese Admiral Hasegawa promptly demanded indemnity and the withdrawal of Chinese troops to a distance of 20 miles from the International Settlement. When the Chinese expressed distaste at being ordered out of their own country, the Japanese piled sailors ashore to reinforce their permanent garrison and the fighting began...
...Japanese sailors and Chinese Peace Preservation militiamen near the Hungjao Military Airdrome. One Japanese officer and a Chinese sentry were killed, a Japanese seaman was reported missing. Angry little Japanese Bluejackets, burning to avenge the death of their comrade, landed under cover of darkness to reinforce the permanent naval garrison in Shanghai. More than 60,000 Chinese from the teeming native quarter, expecting a repetition of the Japanese retaliation bombing of the city in 1932 (TIME, Feb. 1, 1932 et seq.), screamed and fought to enter the already crowded foreign areas...