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While Kansas towns burn and North and South begin Civil War, Will Cantrill turns from school teaching to guerilla warfare to get to the top of the world in the quickest time possible. With a woman at the bottom of his ambitions and marshal Bob Seton always waiting to take her away, the plot preserves all the aspects of a rip-roaring melodrama and yet succeeds where hundreds have failed. "Dark Triumph," boasting a lot of new talent and some oldtimers like Walter Pidgeon and Clare Trevor is one of the better pictures to his a Boston screen this year...
Making a general appeal to the people of the United States to stop selling war materials to Japan, Major Evans F. Carlson, intelligence officer of the U. S. Marine Corps and military observer for eighteen months among Chinese guerilla bands, told a capacity audience at the Union yesterday that peace in China could be accomplished by an embargo on war materials to Japan...
Closely connected with guerilla bands in Shansi and other provinces of northern China, Major Carlson said that China is like a checkerboard with the Japanese holding the lines and the Chinese the squares. Meaning that the invaders control the railways and the defenders hold the space between, he recalled that in one place, a small defending force surrounded on four sides has not surrendered to the enemy in almost a year of fighting...
...divide this war, which is now in its third year, into three phases," added Major Carlson. "The first or defensive part ended with the fall of Hankow, the second or guerilla phase is now in progress, while troops are now being trained for the final counter-offensive which is yet to come...
With this speech Major Carlson will show uncensored pictures of the Japanese invasion which he has gathered while spending a year and a half as special observer with the Chinese regular and guerilla units. So completely has he lived with the Chinese forces during their attempts to resist Japan's "New Order in East Asia" that the British Ambassador in China has described him as the best-informed western military observer in China...