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Even as Dr. Soong spoke "the enemy" were pouring some 50,000 mixed Japanese and Manchukuoan troops across the frontier of Jehol. The Chinese claimed to have taken Chinchow, Japanese concentration point between Shanhaikwan and Mukden. Heavy Japanese fire began at Chaoyang near the border. But it will be many weeks before they can scale the mountain passes (defended by 150,000 Chinese) leading to Chengteh...
...Chinese feats of heroism, produced some exciting stories, mostly at Shanghai. Best was the Shanghai story of how "General Teng Ti-mei and 360 soldiers wearing only summer uniforms of thin cotton had made an heroic last stand in sub-zero weather" on Mount Takushan, 125 mi. southeast of Mukden, since the middle of December...
Purifying Politics. At Tokyo, War Minister Araki flashed off orders to Mukden last week which sent 35 Japanese troop trains thundering down upon Jehol. While far off battles raged-with Japanese victories a foregone conclusion-he could review with warm satisfaction the manner in which since last spring obstacles to "The Way of the Perfect Emperor" have melted away. Obstacle of doubt at home. Obstacle of interfering white folk abroad...
Thirty-five troop trains had bellowed down from Mukden, Japan's Manchurian war base, to the borderlands of Jehol where railways end. Japanese, though they have never held Jehol, claimed it as part of their puppet state "Manchukuo." Last week Japanese were pained by what seemed to them the ignorance of Western editors in printing such headlines as this in Manhattan's Herald Tribune: JEHOL INVADED BY JAPANESE, CHINA LEARNS. On the contrary, Imperial Japan claimed to be "repulsing" from Jehol soldiers who by their mere presence there were clearly bandits and invaders of Manchukuo...
...frightened peasant reported that he had seen Mrs. Pawley hidden in a hut only 30 miles from Newchang, that she was well treated, but needed food. It was a great chance for Japanese authorities to show how much they are needed in Manchuria. The British Consul General in Mukden and Japanese Commander-in-Chief General Muto held several conferences, finally decided to pay a ransom. Meanwhile Mrs. Pawley's father received a note from kidnapped Mr. Corkran...