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...year-old Captain Evans Fordyce Carlson of the U. S. Marine Corps. Having served five years as attaché to the U. S. Embassy at Peking, Captain Carlson returned to Hankow after three and a half months' "tour" as a military observer of the "conquered" provinces of Shansi, Hopei, Shantung and Suiyuan, where he traveled with organized Chinese guerrilla bands, including detachments of the Communist-trained Eighth Route Army, met Red Commander...
...contingents were flat on their bellies, peppering each other. This was exactly the "incident" the Japanese Army had been waiting for as an excuse to extend its control south and west of the province of Jehol, occupied in 1933, to the remaining North China provinces of Chahay, Hopei, Suiyuan, Shansi and Shantung. Spurning Chinese offers to investigate the clash, Japanese commanders swung their big guns on Peking itself-and the war in China...
...that Japanese control in the conquered territory is limited to rail-lines, roadways. Her battle front, supplied by overstretched, underprotected communi cation lines, is strung out three times as long as the Western Front during the World War. Behind these front lines Chinese guerrillas range with murderous freedom. In Shansi Province, "occupied" by Japanese for four months, 28 divisions of the Chinese Communist 8th Route Army move about organizing the peasants into a Communistic province within a province. At Peking, Chinese soldiers last week attacked the power house outside the city walls. In Shanghai, frequent firing is still heard...
...Yellow River to flood is nothing new. Its Chinese name, Hwang Ho, is taken from hwang tu, the "yellow dirt" which it carries down in great quantity from Shansi and Shensi. This pale silt is constantly being dropped on the riverbed, which consequently steadily rises above the adjoining land. To keep the river in line the Chinese have long built dikes. Rising floor and walls have made the river an aqueduct, lifted its surface at high water as much as 30 feet above the surrounding plain. So frequently has the ochre stream cracked its dikes and devastated the countryside that...
SHANGHAI--Reinforced Japanese armies battered Chinese lines today along an irregular front of more than 1500 miles from Ningpo, south of Shanghai, to Suchow-Pu, in east central China, and Puchow-Fu, in southwest Shansi Province. The full length of the vital Lung-Hai railway, defending Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek's Provisional capital in Hankow, still remained in Chinese hands, however...