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...IMPORTANCE OF LIVING-Lin Yu-tang-Reynal & Hitchcock...
Before the Japanese encircled Nanking, the gunboat Panay-day before it was sunk-evacuated most foreigners from the doomed city and the Chinese defense commander, General Tang Sheng-chi, fled, leaving his officers and men to their fate. During the four terrible days between the departure of the Panay and the arrival of the Japanese fleet, Nanking was a flaming chaos without government, without telephones, electricity or water supply. Not many more than a score of white men, most of them Americans and most of the Americans missionaries, remained during the siege in which the Japanese slaughtered 33,000 Chinese...
...Provisional Government of the Republic of China." They also intimated that for some time to come their attempts at governing will be circumscribed roughly within a 780-mile radius southwest of Peking (see map, p. 13), although Japan has so far conquered a much smaller area (barred). Dr. Tang Er-ho, a spry and bespectacled veteran of North China politics and graduate of Tokyo Imperial University, issued the proclamation in Peking. Alternately stroking his neat goatee and puffing on a long cheroot, he declared "We are all old men, without ambition to hold office, but we feel the responsibility...
...under her yoke, General Shigeo Fujii, long a veteran of Japanese action in China and credited with the founding of the Japanese controlled Manchukuoan Army, had been murdered by his own men, mutinying to fight against Japan. Killed by other Manchukuoan mutineers was the Japanese-controlled General Liu Kwei-tang. Later in the week came word that the entire Second Division of the Manchukuoan Army led by its Commander Yin Pao-san, and Chief of Staff Chu Chen-jua, had gone over to the Chinese side. Many other Manchukuoans did not bother to declare for the Nanking Government, but reverted...
...formerly did not like your magazine because its style was too flippant (the judge's word) or "persnickety" (my husband's). Now they read it more frequently and with more relish, they say. But they like sugar on their grapefruit. I like salt. And I like the tang of the savory bons mots with which TIME seasons the news...