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Capture of Tsinan would sever the link between Japan's front lines and her supply & troop landing base at Tientsin, 175 miles north. However, military observers thought that continued occupation of Tsinan by the Chinese would be a foolhardy proposition, for Japanese troops could easily land at Tsingtao, Japanese-held port. 200 miles away on the coast and connected with Tsinan by direct rail. However, the very fact that the Chinese forces dared strike in the heart of Japanese territory was evidence of the precarious position Japan's military machine has now reached in central China...
...pass in northwest Shansi to Chengchow, 300 miles to the southeast in Honan, Japanese forces finally secured a toehold on the Chinese-held south bank of the river at Szeshui, Honan Province, Chinese sources admitted last week. Main Japanese objective since their December capture of Nanking has been to sever the vital east-west lifeline of central China, the Lunghai Railway defended by the so-called "Chinese Hindenburg Line." The Lunghai Railway connects (via the Peking-Hankow line) Chiang Kai-shek's capital at Hankow with Sian, capital of Communist-held Shensi and source of Soviet supplies coming...
Above is a sample ballot for the Senior election. Voting will be held from 9:45 to 10:15 and from 11:45 to 12:15 o'clock in the morning is Harvard, Emerson, and Sever, and in the House dinning halls and in Dudley at lunch and supper...
Yesterday afternoon at 2 o'clock, English 70, which usually meets in Sever 11, found itself excluded and forlornly wandering around the Yard in search of a classroom. William K. Chandler, Instructor of English, was pursued by the importunate almost to Winthrop House when he refused to meet his dispossessed class...
Meanwhile, within Sever 11 pianos were thumping, victrolas playing, and youthful voices lifted to the strains of "Home On The Range," "She'll be Comin' Round The Mountain," and others, as the class in American Literature studied the folksong. Jones led the singing and gave a solo...