Word: nankingers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Six Japanese planes with chattering ma-chine guns chased China's shrill-voiced, slim-waisted Premier & Generalissimo for 175 miles last week, but at last his sleek U. S. Boeing with a U. S. pilot at the controls outdistanced all pursuit. The Dictator and Mme Chiang were set down...
Meanwhile, around Nanking utterly raw, undrilled Chinese youths, most of whom scarcely knew how to use a rifle, were flung against advancing Japanese regulars, and horribly butchered. The crack, German-drilled Chinese 88th Division under ruthless officers, conserving its own strength, drove the Chinese recruits forward and shot in the...
Tokyo was highly impatient to have Nanking captured last week on a mystic date particularly gratifying to the Son of Heaven, namely the 12th Day of the 12th Month of the 12th Year of His Imperial Majesty's reign which is known as Showa or "Light and Peace." The...
The Japanese military were also busy last week getting together such Chinese as they could find who were willing to form under Japanese tutelage a "Chinese Government" to replace that cleared out of Nanking (TIME, Nov. 29). There was talk of persuading China's all but forgotten "Scholar War...
In Shanghai, Generalissimo Chiang's big banker brother-in-law T. V. Soong was standing pat in the International Settlement, despite reports that he had fled. "I predict," he declared "that within three months-providing we can hold out, which I am sure we can-Japan will be on...