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Other recent acquisitions are the Peiping Chien Pu, a collection of Oriental writing paper decorated with beautifully colored prints, and the fireproofed rare-book room which now safeguards the precious Buddhist Sutra (Bible).
" 'I don't consider the withdrawals from Tsinan and down the Peiping-Hankow railroad large defeats' he said. 'We have just begun to fight.' [Then] he went back to his maps."
North China's ancient capital Peking, which has been called Peiping for the past nine years by decree of Premier Chiang, is now administered by Chinese officials under orders of its Japanese conquerors. Last week amid local rejoicing the city resumed its name of Peking, meaning proudly "Northern Capital...
China. The first skull of Peking Man was found in 1929 in limestone caves at Choukoutien, 20 mi. from Peiping. This apish oldster is now generally conceded to be 1,000,000 years old, most ancient of known human fossils. Last summer, two days before Sino-Japanese fighting broke out...
Japanese commanders even had time to worry about etiquette. Thus Major General Rensuke Isogai, advancing down the Tientsin-Pukow line and Lieut.-General Seishiro Itagaki, advancing on the Peiping-Hankow railway, are supposed to be "friendly rivals." Out of courtesy to them. Japanese military headquarters in China make every effort...