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...Japanese had tried to make sure that hard-eyed General Pai Feng-hsiang and his army of 18,000 hard-riding cavalrymen would play no tricks. So the Japanese arranged a feast and invited the surly general. When the general died the same night, the Japanese said: "So sorry." Then they looked around for a friendlier leader...
...diminutive Cantonese General Hsueh Yo, commander in chief of the Ninth War Area and Governor of Hunan, the situation looked grim. The Japanese had crushing superiority in planes, artillery and mechanized equipment; they might have up to 100,000 men. The valley of the Hsiang River gave them a natural avenue of approach to his capital. A few crosswise streams and low hills were his only terrain advantages. General Hsueh studied the map, pondered. He had let the Japanese get within 15 miles of Changsha in 1939, then cut them to bits. But he had fought with crack Central Government...
...black-turbaned, black-hearted Chinese Moslem named Tung Fu-hsiang, assisting in the barbaric anti-foreign Boxer attacks at Peking, eased himself with hideous satisfaction into a brand-new chair. It was upholstered with the still fresh skin of Baron Klemens von Ketteler, the murdered German Minister...
...Hsien Hsiang Ku, of Hongkong, China, S.B. Purdue '40; Donald W. Loiselle, of Concord, N. H., S.B.U. of N. H. '40; Taylor Lyman, of Mt. Vernon, S. Dak., A.B. Stanford '40; Edward J. McBride, S.M. '39, of Chester, Pa.; Henry F. Maling Jr., S.M. '40; of Arlington; Stanley J. Markowski, of Thompsonville, Conn., S.B. Conn., '40; Richard H. Meese, of Santa Rosa, Calif., S.B. Washington...
Guerrillas. A phrase heard often in China, where things are always breaking down, is: "hsiang fa tze"-"let's cook up a scheme." By January 1938, Shanghai's industry-which was about 70% of China's-had been turned into acres of scrap steel and broken brick. Unless some scheme could be cooked up to replace this wrecked beehive, China's economy would have very little sting left...