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Blockade. A handy incident provided the excuse for the Japanese blockade. A Chinese customs official employed by Japan's puppet government at Peking was killed in the British Concession at Tientsin. Japanese military authorities at Tientsin named four Chinese as the murderers, demanded that they be handed over. The British asked for evidence; the Japanese produced none. While the British proposed that an arbitration board headed by a U. S. chairman mediate the matter, the Japanese talked of anti-Japanese terrorists being deliberately harbored in the Concession. At 6 a. m. one day last week they ended their talk...
...miles behind the Japanese lines, regions ruled by guerrilla bands of Chinese. Since they must keep an army of 475,000 in Manchukuo, as insurance against Russia, Japanese cannot afford the manpower necessary to garrison most Chinese villages in the occupied areas. So they have attempted to set up puppet Chinese governments. Where these governments are effective the Chinese are taxed to death; there is a tax on pigs, a tax on goods-in-stock, a tax on travel, and a, tax on the movement of all commodities. Farm animals have been seized, and the metal parts of tools confiscated...
...academic achievement. Most fascinating to visiting couples is the U. of C.'s not-too-scientific attempt to show them, by means of dolls, what their children will look like. Couples press buttons underneath the two dolls who most resemble them; machinery whirrs and out pops a puppet combining the physical characteristics of the parent dolls...
...long after the war began the Japanese showed signs of coveting the accumulated riches of the concessions. In North China the Japanese demanded that the foreign concession at Tientsin, and the Legation Quarter at Peking, turn over to their puppet Government for a new Federal Reserve Bank some $9,000.000 in silver belonging to the Chinese Government-controlled banks. When foreign authorities (backed by the French and British Governments) refused, the Japanese took the extraordinary procedure of issuing paper money "against" this silver...
Post readers found the articles sensational; Post editors were proud of their scoop. General Krivitsky told how Stalin had tried to set up a puppet state in Spain, how he had shot his generals on framed evidence furnished by the German Gestapo, how his every political move was directed toward making a deal with Hitler. Although a few informed critics questioned some of General Krivitsky's facts and many open-minded persons questioned his disinterest, no one questioned his identity until last fortnight, when the editors of the Communist New Masses popped out from behind the curtains and. leveling...