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...Lloyd McKin Garrison Prize of $175 has been divided between Stanislas Pascal Franchot '32, of Boston, for his poem "Prelude to the Twilight of the West" and James Rufus Agee '32, of Rockland, Maine, for his group of poems. Both men will get silver medals. Honorable mention goes to C. L. Sultzberger '34, R. M. Hatch '33, and Keith Martin...
Chinese Pandemonium broke loose when, day after the Pax Britannica was initialed, the Chinese Government of Marshal Chiang Kai-shek telegraphed orders to Chinese mayors and garrison commanders to suppress promptly and at once any anti-Japanese societies or other boycott groups in their districts...
Still another Harvard player who will appear tonight with the Boston Club, a purely amateur organization, is J. P. Garrison '31, who is at right defense. In the regular series played between these two teams last week, each won one game and the third...
...Thursday night at 11:15 p. m. he began the systematic occupation of Chapei, the Chinese city stretching north of the rich International Settlement. He had in all about 3,000 troops-some 1,200 marines from his ship, some 2,000 of the Japanese garrison maintained in the Japanese section of the International Settlement. Armored cars with searchlights led the way. Behind them came trucks, jammed with infantry. In reserve were infantry, on foot. Crash! Crash! went the rifles shooting out the street lights as the columns advanced. At every corner trucks stopped. Men hopped out to scurry through...
...river patrol of seven Japanese destroyers is stationed there. Without warning, their commander began bombing the city which was simultaneously plunged into darkness except for searchlights which wavered fearfully from the Chinese airport. Enormously strengthened by the arrival of 30,000 fresh troops the day before, the Chinese garrison was nonetheless unprepared for the attack. Earlier in the day, the Mayor said he had been assured that no offensive would be launched. To avoid possible misunderstanding, sandbag barricades, erected at strategic points within the city, had been taken down. Under cover of the bombardment, Japanese blue-jackets landed five miles...