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...troops, which, firmly entrenched, defied the fierce onset of the Imperial Army. The Chinese soldiers raised strong defense works there during a month. A way had to be cut through these deadly obstacles for the Imperial troops. Three heroes of a Japanese sappers' corps, named Takeji Eshita, Jo Kitakawa and Inosuke Sakue, fastened to themselves a firing bomb three metres long and jumped into the wire entanglements. The bomb exploded with a loud detonation, smashing the three heroes and the barbed wire to pieces. These heroes died a desperate death, opening a way for the infantrymen to make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Human Torpedoes'' | 11/6/1933 | See Source »

...furniture. Bring that bed here. Move that bureau over there. And then you might scrub the ceiling." Sweating and grunting the spy obeyed until it was time for Mrs. McCoy to dress for dinner. "You can go now," she sweetly told him. "Thank you so much, Captain Kitakawa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Spies, Spies & Spies | 9/19/1932 | See Source »

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