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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...history the U. S. has repeatedly told the army that there was no job for it except a little domestic police work, but 25 consecutive years have never gone by without the army's being called on to undertake a campaign, against British, Mexicans, Spanish, Germans, red Indians, or white Southerners. And of the five principal wars the army has been called upon to fight, only one (the Civil War) was fought wholly on U. S. soil...
According to Japanese accounts the Red Army never charged with the bayonet. After a heavy barrage the Russian infantry advanced supported by tanks, threw hand grenades from a distance of a few yards, then fled. At any rate, by armistice hour Soviet attacks had not dislodged the Japanese from Changkufeng, although the hill was deeply pitted with craters made by Russian shells...
...Hill as far as the diplomats could agree last week were: 1) although Moscow claimed the hill under a Russo-Chinese treaty of 1886, for many years it had been completely vacant; 2) Koreans and Manchukuoans had from time to time gone to it on festival pilgrimages unhindered by Red Army frontier guards; 3) Changkufeng first emerged from obscurity when a Soviet force occupied it on July 11; 4) Japanese forces drove the Russians from the hill on July 31. Not mentioned, of course, was the fact that Changkufeng, once firmly held and fortified by either Russia or Japan, would...
...truce simply provided that the two armies "cease all military action on August 11 at midday, local time." According to official Red Army communiques from the scene, this left a Japanese force extending 650 feet into what Russia considers Soviet soil and a Soviet force extending at a different point 980 feet into what Japan considers Manchukuoan soil...
Black gloom settled last week over Chinese officials at Hankow when news came that the Soviet Union and Japan had signed a truce. While the fighting with the Red Army was at its hottest fortnight ago, Japanese aviators bombed Chinese cities only halfheartedly. Last week they redoubled their bombing zeal over the triplet Wuhan cities (Hanyang, Wuchang, Hankow), killed at least 1,000 people, damaged five U. S. mission properties. With the final battle for Hankow approaching, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek removed as much factory machinery as possible and shipped it upriver with Hankow's 500,000 fleeing civilians...