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Returning to Japan from his naval command in Chinese waters, Vice Admiral Kiyoshi Hasegawa, whom the confident Japanese expected to announce new victories, tersely remarked: "The war is only half over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Lost Optimism | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

...Japan last week refused to attend, and so did Germany. Japanese took the conduct of General Telfer-Smollett as proving this up to the hilt, claimed to have found in the captured Alamo quantities of "fresh food which could only have been smuggled in from the British." Vice Admiral Kiyoshi Hasegawa this week was so boiling mad on his flagship at Shanghai that when a British soldier was reported to have touched a machine gun on a Japanese river launch, the Admiral reported to his Emperor: "The Japanese Navy has been insulted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Never Anything Greater! | 11/8/1937 | See Source »

...present leader, Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, set up his regime at Nanking which means "Southern Capital," abandoning Peking, the "Northern Capital" which Japanese captured this year. Last week there had already been sixteen Japanese air raids over Nanking when the Commander in Chief of the Japanese Navy in China, Admiral Kiyoshi Hasegawa, announced a series of super-bombings to wipe the capital of China from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: As Advertised | 10/4/1937 | See Source »

Elsewhere in the north there was more trouble. Japanese reinforcements pouring all week long through Peiping, put the total Japanese force in North China under Lieut. General Kiyoshi Kazuki at well over 90,000 men. Through driving rain and mud hip-high to the short-legged Japanese, lines were pushed straight through to Kalgan in Chahar Province, giving Japan final control of the vitally important Nan-kow Pass and Peiping-Kalgan railroad, the line that Japan must have if she is to control North China (or ever attempt to attack Russia through southern Siberia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Belated Push | 9/13/1937 | See Source »

...shell fire. U. S. Admiral Harry Yarnell, British Admiral Sir Charles Little, backed by the French naval commander, devised joint proposals which they sent to their Consuls General who in turn presented them to Shanghai's Chinese Mayor, toothy O. K. (for nothing) Yui and Japanese Admiral Kiyoshi Hasegawa. For the protection of foreigners in the International Settlement, one demanded that all Japanese warships drop downstream below the China Merchants Lower Wharf, that Chinese soldiers retire simultaneously south of Yangtsepoo Creek. No hint of what action Britain and the U. S. might take was added. Polite Mayor Yui said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Belated Push | 9/13/1937 | See Source »

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