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...General Sung Cheh-yuan (TIME, July 19). In a series of pitched battles at historic Marco Polo Bridge and among the hamlets clustered about Peiping, Chinese gave a spirited account of themselves, and last week in picturesquely worded communiques they "repulsed the barbarians who tried to cut off our garrison and airport at Nan-Yuan, driving them off with our broad-swords." During this engagement two small Japanese shells burst just inside Peiping's Yungting Gate, but panic-stricken Chinese peasants continued to flee in from the countryside...
...after 14 years in the U. S. Navy, retired in 1919 to become one of the world's leading authorities on and ablest players of bridge; in New York. Died. Lt.-Gen. Kanichiro Tashiro, 56, predecessor of Lt.-Gen. Kiyoshi Kazuki as Commander of the Japanese North China garrison (see p. 18); of heart disease; in Tientsin, China...
...trains hotter than ever. Fort Bedford, 30 miles away, answered by wholesale arrests. At dawn a few days later James Smith and 19 Black Boys leaped from behind an embankment before the Fort entrance, streaked through the gates before a dazed sentry could collect his wits, covered the dumbfounded garrison of crack regulars gathered about their morning rum ration. The whole operation required less than two minutes. Eight days later Smith was arrested and put on trial for murder. Following his prompt acquittal, he was elected to the Pennsylvania Assembly...
...Harvard Law School's Professor Felix Frankfurter is supposed to have hand-picked to put across the New Deal, had reason last week to be happier than ever. Now 39, now dean of the University of Wisconsin's Law School, good-natured, baldish, ruddy-cheeked Lloyd Kirkham Garrison whose famed great-grandfather helped free the slaves, grinned with pleasure as Governor Philip La Follette signed a new law to free debt-bur-dened low-income earners in Wisconsin from the legal restraints of garnishment...
General V. M. Primakov of the Kharkov (Ukraine) military garrison...