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By nature fervent in celebrating their great anniversaries with firecrackers and rejoicings, Chinese this year have been grimly preparing to hurl a supreme counteroffensive against Shanghai's Japanese invaders as the best way of celebrating famed Double-Ten, "The 10th Day of the 10th Month," which fell this week...
Off the coasts of China lay last week virtually every Japanese aircraft carrier, sending shoals of bombers off their decks daily. Chinese intercepter fighters and anti-aircraft batteries did magnificent work at the main centres of attack, such as Nanking and Shanghai, but little or nothing could be done against...
"Via Nanking. (Mme Chiang's present whereabouts undisclosed for military reasons.) My heart is chilled by the thought of what is coming over the rest of the land in the near and distant future, with our ports blockaded, our wide northern regions being torn by ruin, and all about...
"Nanking, China. I have just returned from a visit to the front in the Shanghai area. The sight of thousands of wounded soldiers patiently waiting at every first-aid station for transportation to hospitals in the rear wrings my heart, despite their magnificent bravery and resignation to pain.
"Nanking. Japanese contempt for noncombatant lives and humanitarian institutions, such as hospitals, was the outstanding feature of the bombing raids of the last weekend. Ninety-five Japanese planes made deliberate attempts in two successive raids to raze the 500-bed Central Rockefeller Hospital, although the Japanese claim this was occupied...