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In their homeland watchful Japs were rewarded last week by the sight of B-29 Superfortresses, bucking winds of hurricane force to bomb the airplane factory center of Omura, on Kyushu Island. The Japs had no way of knowing that these China- based planes had been ordered by radio to...
Presented to the University by more than 1000 Chinese alumni during the Tercentennial celebration in 1936, the monument belonged originally to Emperor Chia Ch'ing, of the Ch'ing dynasty. The emperor presented it to one of his favorite governors in the year 1810, and it remained in China until...
Said a furniture dealer: "I am at the end of my resources. Since 1938 the Japs have driven my family and me from Nanking, Hankow and Changsha."
Stilwell's Part. But first Stilwell must swab out Japanese pockets of infection-including Myitkyina, around which, for more than 40 days, his troops have been closing a circle at house-to-house pace. In about seven months Stilwell had driven almost 200 miles from Ledo, had knocked out...
Window on a Nightmare. From 1937 to 1941, Editor Gayn's window in Shang hai's International Settlement looked out on some of the most terrible nightmares of the contemporary world - the Japanese attacks. "In the months and years which followed the rape of Nanking, ten million Chinese...