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Next Japanese objective was another so-called "Chinese Hindenburg Line." The first, an impressive array of cement pillbox forts strung across the Yangtze delta back of Shanghai, was supposed to defend Nanking, but the defenders simply fled, not waiting to be attacked (TIME, Nov. 29). This Hindenburg Line, much more heavily fortified and built under German military engineers during the past six years, was constructed to resist an attack from the north at just about the point the Japanese have reached this week, a few miles north of Suchow. But now, if the Japanese cannot take it from the north...
...greatly things were upside down in the politically more important area between Shanghai and Nanking. Chinese leaders have been talking for weeks about how their troops would be able to hold "for six months" against Japanese onslaughts "the Chinese Hindenburg Line," Fushan-Soochow-Kashing. Its thousands of cement pillbox forts built upon hummocks in swampy terrain appeared most formidable, and bulwark of this Hindenburg Line was Soochow. Fortnight ago Chinese dignitaries appealed to foreigners to urge their governments to ask the Japanese to "spare highly cultured Soochow the horrors of bombing"-not that these Chinese doubted it could and would...
Significantly the Premier spoke of those involved and arrested as "criminals," strictly abstained from hinting that the State had uncovered a political conspiracy. The seized arms were of German, British, Italian manufacture. Some of the arms caches resembled cement pillbox forts, some contained radio equipment, and detectives were tracing private telephone wires they had discovered. Most neutral Paris correspondents agreed with the New York Times that it was too early to guess whether what had been partially uncovered was the makings of a coup d'etat or simply the stock in trade of French smugglers busy catering...
...Catholic families, refugees from Assyria and Mesopotamia and the largest group of their countrymen in the U. S.? In Mosul, Iraq the white-bearded Patriarch assented, chose his black-bearded onetime Vicar General, Rev. Francis Thomay. That 51-year-old cleric shaved off his whiskers, removed his shiny black pillbox hat, arrived in Manhattan last August wearing the dark mufti of a priest. In Chicago last week Father Thomay was laying plans to build the first Chaldean Rite church...
...battleships of 1905, bristling with pillbox turrets, it was impossible to depress gun muzzles sufficiently to beat off this new attack. A few coffee-grinding Catling guns were all the Russians had to oppose the little sea hornets. By next noon four battleships, seven cruisers, five destroyers and five auxiliary ships were at the bottom of the Japan Sea. Four more battleships and two hospital ships had surrendered. Four thousand Russians were killed or drowned and 7,000 more surrendered. Japanese losses were three torpedo boats, 116 killed, 538 wounded. The Battle of Tsushima Straits decided the naval mastery...