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Word: langfang (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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 29th Army withdraw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN-CHINA: Maintaining Prestige | 8/2/1937 | See Source »

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