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...note was dispatched to the Japanese Commander in Chief in China, General Yasuji Okamura: "Cease hostilities immediately . . . send representatives to receive military instructions from General Ho Ying-chin, Chinese military chief of staff. . . . Japanese troops are temporarily permitted to retain their arms and equipment for the maintenance of public order...
...Shall Consider." Tension mounted, eased, mounted again. Japan's General Okamura accepted Chungking's order, promised to surrender formally this week. Central Government troops moved into Canton, waited on Shanghai's outskirts. The Chinese puppet chief at Nanking, Chen Kung-po, promising to "atone for my sins," transferred allegiance to Chungking, put "1,000,000 soldiers" in the Yangtze valley at Chiang's disposal...
...Japanese pressed closer to China's inner fortress. The enemy had moved to within 120 miles of Kweiyang, an air base city near the eastern end of the Burma Road. Nanning, last forward American air base in China, was captured. Heading the advance was wily, bespectacled General Yasuji Okamura (whom Wedemeyer called a "wise and adept mountain fighter...
...some reason Tokyo had summoned Okamura from north China, after an upstairs kick for his predecessor, Field Marshal Shunroku Hata. Best guesses why: 1) the advance was now approaching the Kuang-si mountain ranges, where Okamura would feel at home; 2) Hata's campaign, despite its success, was behind schedule...
...destroyers. Every 20 feet stood a Chinese with a rifle, revolver, machine-gun or snickersnee. General Hsiung was obliged to walk across a dusty road, through a network of new barbed wire and trenches, to the Japanese garrison's barracks. Inside he saluted Japanese Major-General Neiji Okamura whom he outranked, signed the curt truce agreement. Then General Hsiung and colleagues returned to Tientsin, prepared to hand their resignations to Nationalist Dictator Chiang Kaishek...