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Japanese forces in China were not only still advancing in the "Hindenburg Line" sector last week, but had so nearly encircled Chinese forces in southwest Shansi numbering about 100,000, that dispatches called them "trapped," said another major butchery impended...
Sturdily up to the War Ministry in Berlin last week marched a delegation of farmers from East Prussia, "The Hindenburg Country." They urged embarrassed War Ministry officials to do something about 30 East Prussian pastors in jail or concentration camps. "We want to render every possible service to the Führer-in peace time as farmers and in war time as soldiers-but there is one thing that must not be taken from us!" declared the farmers' spokesman. "We must be able to serve Our Lord, Jesus Christ, faithfully...
...Morrissey's 14 Gym staff men, Captain Gill's special detail of campus ogpus, five New Haven gumshoes, 21 flatfeet, gendarmes, a bluecoat patrol, additional constables, disguised in tuxedos and veterans of the Hindenburg Line (as the Yale News warned me) were stationed at my doors to keep crashers out. They began to get bored so we had another drink. A couple of mugs came in in the meanwhile, but if they hadn't had tickets they would have told us. Then they took some pictures of the cops in tuxes and asked where their partners were. They were from...
Shanghai dispatches meanwhile reported better news of China's "invigorated" airforce. Some of the Japanese forces which had reached the north bank of the Yellow River in their advance toward the so-called "Chinese Hindenburg Line" were reported "broken up" by bombs. A captive balloon from which Japanese observers were directing artillery fire was attacked from the air and shot down in flames. This week Japanese operations against the Hindenburg Line continued with slow, progressive success, but Generalissimo Chiang's troops had begun offering improved resistance, due observers thought to "invigorated" bombing...
Chinese newspapers said the Generalissimo was in personal command of 400,000 troops defending his "Hindenburg Line" near Suchow (TIME, Feb. 14). In this sector the Japanese advance launched fortnight ago was proceeding cautiously last week, Japanese artillery blasting the way for Japanese troops. The Chinese, although greatly outnumbering the Japanese, appeared decisively inferior in artillery and aviation...