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As the Chinese Government's officials at Peiping and thereabouts continued to kowtow to a few Japanese brigades last week, much of North China seemed to have been brought under the rule of Tokyo without a fight and by sheer bullying bluff. Suddenly, however, there was plenty of fighting...
On his way out of Peiping, the Chinese Governor whom the Japanese had ousted had conveniently left behind an armored train lolling at a junction ten miles south-west of Peiping. Early one evening last week some 60 Chinese and Koreans in civilian clothes, armed and led by Mr. Pai...
So far as possible the Chinese people have been kept in ignorance of their Government's capitulation. Over 100 newspapers in North China have been suppressed. Chinese and Japanese censorship remained ironclad. Japanese bombing planes thundered menacingly over Peiping. In Tientsin with feverish activity Japanese architects and landscape gardeners...
In North China the cockiness of Japanese was such that when a Japanese officer motoring from Peiping last week observed that a single Japanese field telegraph pole had somehow caught fire he stepped on the accelerator, roared into Tientsin at 60 m. p. h. to report "the outrage." Soon a...
First sign that China was yielding came after Japanese demonstrations in and over Tientsin with troops, tanks and bombing planes, the latter thundering low over Tientsin's foreign concessions. Promptly Governor Yu, whose dismissal Japan had demanded, was dismissed and departed southward with his troops. Five trainloads of Government...