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Japanese, pursuing their second objective of cutting off China from receiving Soviet supplies via Outer and Inner Mongolia, captured last week Kweisui, the capital of Suiyuan. This province is the third in Inner Mongolia, Japan having taken Jehol in 1933 and northern Chahar in 1935, but although Suiyuan's capital fell last week the entire province was by no means conquered, the Soviet link...
...this demand China's Chang replied that, while it would be premature for China to grant such rights to Japan in all Chinese provinces, the Chinese Government would permit Japanese military co-operation in assisting it to exterminate Communism and banditry in the Chinese provinces of Manchuria, Jehol, East Hopei and Northern Chahar. The point of this uproarious Chinese joke could not entirely escape even glum Japanese Ambassador Shigeru Kawagoe upon whom it was sprung with the utmost Chinese decorum-for Mr. Kawagoe well knows that the areas specified are precisely those which Japanese soldiers already dominate and have...
...handed to sleek, sensitive Chinese War Minister Ho Ying-chin, who was assigned in 1933 to defend North China and promised "We shall also reconquer Jehol and Manchuria!" the chief Japanese demands were...
Over the line last week went 4,000 Japanese and Manchukuan troops assembled fortnight ago on the border between Manchukuan Jehol and Mongolian Chahar (TIME, Jan. 28). Striking quickly, with tanks, bombing planes, heavy artillery, the Japanese force swept aside frostbitten, ill-equipped Chinese irregulars along a 30-mile front, captured three towns. Estimated casualties...
...Caspian, has been prowling Central Asia almost continuously ever since. Expert hydrographer and cartographer, he carries only the simplest instruments on his expeditions, depends largely on the measured stride of his riding camel for computing distances. For Chicago's Century of Progress he directed the reproduction of Jehol's "Golden Pavilion." Short, bland, unmarried and 69, Explorer Hedin is now completing a railroad survey for China's Nanking Government. Though A Conquest of Tibet had to be translated, it has not yet been published in any other country than the U. S. Other books: Adventures in Tibet...