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While violent jingos in the Japanese Army have been controlling the country for years and keeping it on the verge of bankruptcy, the Japanese Navy by & large has played conservative. Worried Japanese businessmen have generally been able to count on the navy's support in efforts to moderate army...
Strictly anti-militaristic, the 75 U. S. Girl Scouts and 26 foreign young ladies pitched their tents helter-skelter-not in precise rows. No martial bugle but a huge iron dinner gong called young "Sylvias" to their meals.* Although their countrymen are at each other's throats, Ruth Sumi...
In Peiping to the north last week the Soviet Embassy called for extra guards as protection from one of the most colorful characters in the Far East: onetime Cossack Ataman General Grigoriy Semenov. With the temperament and figure of an old time Greek wrestler, he has made a good living...
If all these generals put all their troops into the campaign Chiang Kai-shek can count on nearly a million men. So far Japan apparently expects to oppose all this with just one general. Lieut. General Kiyoshi Kazuki, commandant at Tientsin (see cut), who was not only fighting Japan'...
Weeks had elapsed since the Generalissimo was reported to be actually sending units of China's crack troops ("Chiang's Own") northward to throw the Japanese out of the Peiping area. Japanese airmen, still looking for these Chinese forces last week, flew 85 miles down the railway up...