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Seething with guerrilla warfare, Manchuria became Banditland in earnest last week. Civilian passenger and freight traffic was suspended on the Chinese Eastern, vital link in the railways that connect China with Europe. Among refugees pouring into Harbin, chief city on the Chinese Eastern, was Herr Kapitan Roland Strunk, grizzled veteran of the Imperial German Army...
...Safe in Harbin, Lord Lytton, a former Viceroy of India, decided to send into the dangerous North a subordinate member of the British delegation, William Waldorf Astor, eldest son of Lord & Lady Astor. Promptly U. S. Delegate Major General Frank McCoy volunteered to send with Mr. Astor his aide, Lieut. William S. Biddie of Portland, Ore. (no kin to Philadelphia's Biddies). By airplane Scouts Astor & Biddle left for Tsitsihar, flying over Manchurian steppes infested with Chinese soldiers and bandits...
Even from Harbin the League Commission could see flames leaping by night and great smoke clouds belching by day from towns north of Harbin fired by Chinese soldiers reputedly under General Ma's command. Japanese soldiers resisting the Chinese attack played a dig-in game, awaited reinforcements. When these arrived they proved to be two Japanese divisions hastily withdrawn from Shanghai. What correspondents called "Japanese nervousness" led to the piling up of sand bag barricades in Harbin streets, the stringing of barbed wire...
...person unknown dynamited the Harbin power station, plunged this major Manchurian city into affrighting darkness...
...182The Chinese Eastern Railway, vital link in the Trans-Siberian route between China and Europe, was cut last week 65 miles south of Harbin, Manchuria by 3,000 Chinese soldiers under General Li Hai-tsing. Ripping up the railway tracks, tearing down telegraph wires the Chinese waited until a train from Harbin chuffed into their clutches. They looted and dispersed before Japanese troops rushed on the scene. Other Chinese troops defied Japanese authority in Manchuria by setting three minor railway stations afire and gutting the city of Suifenho (reported loss...