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...heavy-laden Monsoon slashed through a treetop, dented a belly blister before she began to climb. This mishap did not interfere with her flight to Manchuria. Neither did an instrument panel fire en route, nor the discovery that three vital instruments (altimeter, rate of climb gauge and airspeed indicator) were knocked out, probably by the treetop. Duplicate instruments...
Like Tojo, Koiso is a tough product of the same Kwantung Army which conquered Manchuria, a member of the same Young Officer group that started pulling the strings behind Japan's aggressive policies a decade and a half ago. But unlike Tojo, he is running no one-man show. Koiso's performers include...
...Acceptable to the Army and big business, he is considered a moderate. In 1938, he settled a serious border dispute with the Soviet Union. Last spring he transferred Japan's extraterritorial rights in China to Puppet Wang Ching-wei. His Greater East Asia responsibilities include the continent from Manchuria to Burma. When face-saving or gracious withdrawals become inescapable, Shigemitsu can do both with honorable grace...
Somehow, the tired, half-starved, miserably equipped Chinese had suddenly burst into attack upon the enemy from all sides. The powerful Jap drive, within 175 miles of closing the last gap in a wall from Manchuria to the China Sea. faltered and stopped...
Mark Gayn was born in 1909 at Barim, Manchuria. Most of the incidents he records in this personal history were part &; parcel of modern China's terrible 30 years' struggle to become a united nation...