Word: relays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Japanese courage and efficiency plus Chinese treachery and bungling made possible last week an epic and amazing relay race of conquest up the snow-swept mountains of Jehol and on to the Great Wall itself, upon which jubilant Japanese hoisted the flag of their puppet state Manchukuo...
...figure of speech, the Japanese Army's relay race plunged forward in such fashion that as soon as a slightly wear)' Japanese brigade had captured a Jehol city, another Japanese brigade, fresh and boiling with zeal, pressed on with the offensive, thus keeping the Chinese in ceaseless headlong flight. Even the Japanese General Staff was amazed by the utter crumpling of Jehol's defense as Chinese "generals" either deserted their troops and fled or broke out Manchukuo flags to welcome the invaders...
...incentive, to Japanese valor by the General Staff, had been to capture Chengteh. the capital of Jehol, by March 10-anniversary of the capture of Mukden during the Russo-Japanese War which cost 97,000 Russian lives, 45,000 Japanese. Actually last week Jehol fell March 4. The relay race had been won in eleven days by Japanese brigades which advanced further than from Portland. Me. to Manhattan, sprinting more than 50 mi. on each of the last three days-about as fast as any modern army can climb mountain passes in the teeth of blizzards. Day before Jehol fell...
Next morning 3,000 Chinese soldiers with rifles and machine guns deployed as though to defend Chengteh. Through this Chinese force, which fired not a shot, dashed 128 Japanese, the extreme advance guard of Major General Tadashi Kawahara's 16th Infantry Brigade which, at 10 a.m., won the relay race and Japanese immortality...
...seated and the teams had settled down to the evening's work, the Crimson offense swung into action. Putnam picked up a Yale pass on his right wing, started up the ice, but was cornered by Noyes and Parker. A quick pass to Saltonstall on his left and a relay to Baldwin speeding down the left lane relieved the situation so quickly that Baldwin's shot took Snyder, in the Blue net, by surprise. On a hard shot from deep left wing Baldwin planked the rubber into the far corner of the net for the first tally at 57 seconds...