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...roving armies known interchangeably as Communists or bandits were sweeping all before them last week in Northern Hunan Province in the heart of China. In safe Nanking the Government squeaked a warning to the U. S. Legation to get U. S. citizens out of Hunan. Already a pair of indomitable U. S. spinsters had decided on their...
...soldiers strutted like heroes for their brief moment.* Scamp Shot. A hint of Japan's real intentions in China exploded last week in Peiping's Grand Hotel des Wagon-Lits. An assassin shot and gravely wounded that thoroughgoing scamp General Chang Ching-yao, onetime military governor of Hunan Province. Police announced that Chang's mission was to set up a monarchy in northern China with Japanese money. Monarch was to be hollow-eyed Henry Pu Yi. now puppet chief of puppet Manchukuo. Chang is "one of the most notoriously disreputable of all China's war-lords...
...Hawkins, Westbord, Ont. Canada, B. F. Hazen, Cambridge, R. W. Hidy, Cambridge, E. Higginbothom, Millbury, M. B. Howell, New York City, Noyenen Huang, Canton, China, K. D. Hutchinson, Greenwood, J. Irving, Cupar Fife, Scotland, G. S. Jackson, Portland, Maine, R. T. Kimberlin, Danville, Indiana, Son Kuan Ko. Hunan, China, A. Korb, Dorchester, D. H. Leiffer, Los Angeles, California, J. Leinbach, Phila., Pennsylvania, E. M. Lindsay, Oo. Annagh, N. Ire., R. W. Logan, Richmond, Virginia, Theodore Norman, Brookline, J. E. O'Loughlin, Somerville, H. W. O'Neill, Sydney, Australis, P. F. Pearson, Keene, New Hampshire, R. A. Phillips, E. Bridgewater...
...kept his promise to march inland from Nanking and exterminate China's Communist Generals or personally die in the attempt. But last week Chiang's Government admitted that the Communist Generals have recently "slaughtered or otherwise disposed of 20.000 Government troops in a series of encounters in Kiangsi. Hunan and Fukien provinces." Promiser Chiang promised to send 200,000 troops to rout the Reds...
With the Nationalist troops which normally protect central China withdrawn to defend Nanking from the advancing Peking war lords, a raggle-taggle army swept down on the river city of Changsha, capital of Hunan province, and laid it low. Correspondents were unanimous in describing the Changsha looters as a Communist army. Only such precisians as the U. S. State Department put the word in quotation marks. For although it was probable that avowed Communists were among the bandits, they carried no Communist banners, posted no Communist proclamations, set up no Communist government. Numbering 10,000 they picked this city...