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Recently, that self-styled authority, Neal O'Hara, who imparts bits of unusual information with varying degrees of success through the columns of the Boston Traveler, says...
...view of the contradictory statements, someone is wrong. To whom shall this error be charged-usually reliable TIME, or occasionally erratic O'Hara...
...usual procedure: the nation starting a note exchange pays the tolls. In the recent instance: wrong, O'Hara; right, TIME. Britain and France paid...
Such is war, as General Sherman said in 1864, and as Shanghai saw last week. The Japanese commander, General Uyeda, was personally desperate. He knew he might have to commit hara-kiri if his offensive got much further behind schedule, and during the first 18 hours he changed his General Staff Headquarters three times: 1) a Japanese cotton mill; 2) a Chinese cottage; 3) Ti Futan University...
Ferocious Rear Admiral Koichi Shio-sawa was under a cloud last week. Word came from Tokyo that he had been superseded by Vice Admiral Kichisaburo No mura. This was immediately followed by a Shanghai despatch to the effect that Admiral Shiosawa had committed hara-kiri in shame. He had not. Rear Admiral Shiosawa remained in official command of the First Fleet, stationed at Shanghai, but Vice Admiral Nomura, higher ranking officer, arrived from Sasebo Naval Base as a sort of supervisor. Pleasant grey-haired Admiral Nomura, with many a friend in the U. S., looks startlingly Nordic. During...