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An evil smoke rose from Peiping's Forbidden City. By order of the National Government, a public bonfire was consuming 800,000 ounces of confiscated opium. China's great drive against the drug traffic was under way again.
For eight years the students and their professors, who trekked from Peiping. Tientsin and other northern cities, had lived a lean and patient life in Kunming. When V-J day brought not peace but internal strife, they stirred restlessly.
One afternoon in Peiping:
Technicians. A spokesman for Japanese civilians in China was suave Viscount Hisaakira Kano, an executive of the once powerful Yokohama Specie Bank and a leading carpetbagger of the late Co-Prosperity Sphere. In Peiping he talked to the New York Herald Tribune's A. T. Steele.
Rice and flour have been coming to General Tu's armies from Shanghai through the port of Chinwangtao. Supplies started moving north this week beyond the Great Wall over the Peiping-Mukden railroad, which so far has suffered relatively minor damage. At Mukden there will be more rice and...