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...worst of all was ta-pai-tzu (malaria). This was the worst malaria spot in the world. The deadly mosquitoes infested the gorge. Exhausted, underfed and ragged soldiers had neither mosquito nets for protection nor quinine to combat the fever. Casualties from malaria were higher than from combat. Apparently well men trudging along the mountain passes would suddenly flush, complain of the fire in their heads, then die. It was months before adequate quantities of quinine reached them...
...firing swelled into a roar, echoing back & forth between the towering mountains. When it died away the Chinese, crouching in their hidden dugouts, could hear the sound of enemy trucks in the hills beyond rumbling up with fresh supplies. The Chinese who had held the front against ta-pai-tzu waited now for the next infestation in the valley...
...sound is pleasant to Itagaki's ear. But he cannot listen to the call from Siberia without cocking an ear toward North China as well. He must have heard lately that Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek has sent the trusted Vice Chief of his General Staff, Mohammedan General Pai Tsung-hsi, to look over that vital area on the Kwantung army's flank. Perhaps, as some Chinese think, Itagaki may time an attack to protect his flank and close the long-unclosed "China Incident." Else General Pai and China's northern armies under General Hu Tsung...
...Japanese had tried to make sure that hard-eyed General Pai Feng-hsiang and his army of 18,000 hard-riding cavalrymen would play no tricks. So the Japanese arranged a feast and invited the surly general. When the general died the same night, the Japanese said: "So sorry." Then they looked around for a friendlier leader...
...Japanese had forgotten how wise in the ways of treachery the Mongols were. When it leaked out that General Pai had been poisoned, his entire Army of 18,000 men rode off in the night. With them they took all the machine guns and ammunition the Japanese had given them. Near Paotow in Suiyuan Province, vowing vengeance as terrible as any conceived by Genghis Khan, the Mongols joined forces with the Chinese...