Word: mikado
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rising Sun flag floated last week over still burning, partially destroyed Suchow, strategic railroad junction of Central China. Japanese trucks, tanks, soldiers were in possession of the streets. To the Mikado's men the capture of Suchow meant the end of a five-months-old, bitterly waged campaign and the beginning of a new offensive toward another junction city, Chengchow, west of Suchow where the Lunghai and the Peking-Hankow Railways meet. The Japanese were obviously beginning a great new encircling movement under the direction of the North China Commander-in-Chief General Count Juichi Terauchi, who flew down...
...minute fight the Chinese claimed a "complete victory," tallied the Japanese casualties at twelve pursuit planes, eight bombers. Later, back in Shanghai, a Japanese communique put the Chinese losses at 51 planes, said only two of the Mikado's raiding craft had failed to return. Although U. S. newsmen raised eyebrows over both sides' claims, one fact they accepted as obvious: the long inactive Chinese air force, once destroyed, once reorganized, composed of Russian, Italian, French, German, American, British and Chinese aircraft and men, had again been revitalized. That the Japanese might have difficulty maintaining their aerial superiority...
...their Empire was Awaked up by Commodore Perry. Continuing last week to taste Japanese blood in a big way, the Chinese pushed northward through bombed, shelled and ruined Taierchwang in which not a house was left standing according to white eyewitnesses, chased Japanese 20 miles to Yihsien, where the Mikado's routed forces finally made a stand. Chinese artillery was moved up into the surrounding hills, shelled Yihsien fiercely until half this ancient city was in flames...
...Popular composer of the 1870s, '80s and '90s. Most prominent of his followers were Vienna's Johann Strauss (Die Fledtrmaus), Oscar Straus (The Chocolate Soldier, and Franz Lehár (The Merry Widow) Strongly influenced also were England' s Gilbert & Sullivan (Pirates of Penzance, The Mikado, etc.), Irish-American Victor Herbert (The Red Mill, Naughty Marietta...
There will be a debate. For the Island side, Takaiso Matsumoto 2GB, who has had teaching experience in the Mikado's universities bears the cudgels. For the Dragon, Robert Dunn Wu '37, relative of his country's ambassador to the United States will answer the bell. A general debate, open to all, is to follow the principal speeches...