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Landing effected on the bank of the Yangtze northwest of Shanghai, the Japanese pushed southward on a broad front trying to catch the Chinese army in a pincers, of which their own forces in Shanghai were the other prong. General Pai Tsung-hsi promptly began to retire to the west...
Shanghai. At the mouth of the Yangtze is commercially and financially the New York City of China. North of Shanghai coolies eat wheat and speak an approximation of Mandarin. South of Shanghai coolies eat rice and speak Cantonese. Until 1842 the Manchu emperors refused foreigners the right to trade at...
At the corner of the famous Bund which skirts the Whangpoo, and Nanking Road, heart of the section where Americans congregate, the sky fell fortnight ago when a Chinese air bomb intended for the Idumo fell, plunk!, into the Palace Hotel (No. 10 on the map). Another, a mile away...
First Aces? Not spared the war was Capital Nanking, 170 mi. away, but repeated Japanese bombing raids caused little damage. Here at least U. S. observers credited China with definite air superiority, and General Mao Peng-tsou, field commander of the air force, gave to the world the names of...
Meanwhile the only immediate result of the promiscuous slaughter in Shanghai was that Japanese diplomatic and consular offices were ordered evacuated from China's capital, Nanking. No one in Tokyo, however, would admit that this presaged a formal declaration of war, a technical gesture now outmoded because it is...