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Miss Lathrop and Mrs. Jones were thus treated in just about the same way as were Chinese troops of the 2Qth Army commanded by Peiping General Sung Cheh-yuan this week. Japanese Lieut. General Kiyoshi Kazuki grew tired of what seemed to him the stubborn slowness of Chinese forces to yield to his demands that they clear out of North China (TIME, July 26). In an action which Japanese officials described as "maintaining prestige," General Kazuki had Japanese airmen heavily bomb Langfang, a station between Peiping and Tientsin on the railway from which area he was insisting that the Chinese...
General Sung Cheh-Yuan himself was busy all week "negotiating" with Japanese Lieut. General Kiyoshi Kazuki. What the two of them were actually doing was waiting around to see whether General Sung's nominal superiors, the Nanking Government, were really sending north "Chiang's Own" and were in earnest about war with Japan or whether instead Nanking would tolerate the setting up of General Sung's territory as "another kuo," that is, as a Japanese puppet state, per-haps to be called Huapeikuo ("North China Country...
Neither a traitor nor a patriot but a Chinese realist, General Sung quite realized that he was at the mercy of General Kazuki unless Chinese Generalissimo Chiang should strongly back him, and this week Sung suddenly caved in, so Kazuki said. According to Japanese sources. General Sung made abject apologies for the recent fighting in North China, agreed to punish Chinese officers whose troops had fought, and confirmed that he always tries to stamp out "anti-Japanism." But all this from Sung was "verbal" and Chinese sources kept absolutely mum about what he had or had not promised Kazuki...
Significantly the Sung-Kazuki "verbal truce" as it was called, came just as the Nanking censor passed this Associated Press dispatch: "A survey of trustworthy information today indicated that the Chinese Central Government was making no real military dispositions to fight Japan in North China...
Died. Lieut. Commander Winfield Liggett Jr., 56, who, after 14 years in the U. S. Navy, retired in 1919 to become one of the world's leading authorities on and ablest players of bridge; in New York. Died. Lt.-Gen. Kanichiro Tashiro, 56, predecessor of Lt.-Gen. Kiyoshi Kazuki as Commander of the Japanese North China garrison (see p. 18); of heart disease; in Tientsin, China...