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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Though the world was loudly promised that Japan's invasion of Jehol would stop at the Great Wall of China, Japanese troops found themselves occupying about 1,000 sq. mi. of Chinese territory inside the Wall last week, firing at fleeing Chinese only 100 mi. from Tientsin. Heaviest fighting took place at Leng Pass 50 miles inland from Shanhaikwan. Because Japanese citizens and taxpayers were grimly considering the first official casualty lists of the Jehol campaign (1,479 Japanese soldiers killed, 3,468 wounded), Japanese staff officers moved more prudently. Fifty field guns and 30 military planes pounded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN-CHINA: Leng Pass | 4/24/1933 | See Source »

...moving 8,000 of his best men to northern Kwantung province where they would join other Cantonese and Southern troops and advance against the Japanese. Foreign correspondents expected this move to be more effective in blasting the prestige of Nationalist Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek than in driving Japan from Jehol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN-CHINA: Leng Pass | 4/24/1933 | See Source »

From Shanghai, where he had lived in constant terror of kidnapping since fleeing Japan's invasion of Jehol, disgraced Marshal Chang Hsiao-Hang, resigned ruler of Peiping, sailed for Italy with his wife and 17 female "secretaries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 17, 1933 | 4/17/1933 | See Source »

...smart to fight Japan, the Generalissimo had left that hopeless & thankless task to the "Young Marshal" who miserably failed to hold Jehol (TIME, March 13 et ante). Last week the New Deal was dealt ceremoniously on the General Staff Train which halted 90 miles short of Peiping at Paotingfu Station. Crestfallen "Young Marshal" Chang resigned his rulership of North China. His resignation was face-savingly "refused" by the Generalissimo until two days later. Meanwhile Young Chang was permitted to proclaim that his sole purpose was to die for China, battling the Japanese in person at the head of a Chinese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: CHINA Unfit | 3/20/1933 | See Source »

...After the loss of the Three Eastern Provinces [Manchuria proper], I tried my best to remedy my faults, but the fall of Jehol convinced me I am unfit to keep command. I have not fulfilled my duties to the Government and my responsibilities to the people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: CHINA Unfit | 3/20/1933 | See Source »

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