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...some-doubtless not all-of the Chinese projects on which Russian experts have been working: the Peking-Hankow, Canton-Hankow, Chengtu-Chungking and Tienshui-Lanchow railways; the Huai River conservation plan (employing some 5,000,000 workers, many of them slave laborers); the Chinkiang water detention basin, the new Tangku harbor in Tientsin. According to best estimates, there are 60,000 Russians "helping out" in China...
Half a Load. The major secondary target for planes which for any reason had to pass up Anshan was Tangku, the port of Tientsin in northernmost China. The Monsoon was past Tangku on the way home when it was discovered that half her bomb load had stuck in the bay. A target of last resort had been specified: the airfield at Chenghsien. The nearby railway junction had already been bombed by a diversionary force of B-29s. The Monsoon knocked out the airfield control tower with its leftovers and breezed back to base...
...North. With Peiping and Tientsin already fallen to the Japanese since the outbreak of war, July 7, some 5,000 more square miles of Chinese territory were under "Japanese protection" last week. Along a wavering line of 150 miles from Nankow to Tangku on the coast (see map) a Japanese army of 120,000 battled with a Chinese force that outnumbered them...
...necessary for these high ranking Chinese to go on foot through the dusty streets of Tangku, and stand humbly in the broiling sun before the heavy gates of the Japanese barracks in this Chinese town, until Japanese soldiers deigned to open. Inside, the Japanese plenipotentiaries were of insultingly lower rank than the Chinese they forced to sign on the dotted line...
...slant eyes of the Far East, China appallingly "lost face" by this Tangku Truce, which has been stretched by Japan in the ensuing months to legalize any outrage Japanese or Koreans chose to commit in North China. In the spring of 1936, not only were Japanese-smuggled sugar, artificial-silk and cigaret paper selling openly in Peiping for less than the Chinese duty which should have been collected on them, but the Chinese state railways were each day running a "smugglers" freight car" coupled to the morning passenger train which entered North China from the Japanese puppet Empire of Manchukuo...