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...Japanese, as they have done time and again in the last eight months, continued to keep the Chinese busy at one place, Kaifeng, while they suddenly last week resumed a halted offensive at another, this time along the Tientsin-Pukow railroad, 175 miles east of Kaifeng and 125 miles from the Yellow Sea. Japanese forces hurled themselves southward along the railway in an attempt to capture Suchow, strategic junction of the Lunghai and Tientsin-Pukow lines and main defense centre of the "Hindenburg Line." Furiously battling Chinese sought to stem the advance by hammering away with repeated flank attacks until...
...with sabres flashing, pennants streaming, charged past in review before U. S. officers and guests at Peking's Breckinridge Field. It was their last review. With the Japanese patrolling the city, U. S. Army authorities decided to disband and dismount the Horse Marines, shunt half the personnel to Tientsin, transfer the remainder to other marine units...
Japanese commanders even had time to worry about etiquette. Thus Major General Rensuke Isogai, advancing down the Tientsin-Pukow line and Lieut.-General Seishiro Itagaki, advancing on the Peiping-Hankow railway, are supposed to be "friendly rivals." Out of courtesy to them. Japanese military headquarters in China make every effort to announce on the same day that each has captured a town, although this sometimes means holding up news for a day or two to let one of the generals catch up with the other. Last week General Isogai was reported furious because Tokyo had not observed this etiquette...
Most potent atrocity picture of the War appeared on U. S. front pages last week- a Japanese soldier practicing bayonet stabs on a dead Chinese lashed to a post. Twice queried, Associated Press Veterans James A. Mills and Morris Harris swore it was authentic, occurred in Tientsin on September...
...have the third largest fleet in the world, an effective blockade of China would still be a far easier move than an effective blockade of Spain. In all that coast there are just six ports with effective rail connection with China's interior north-to-south: Tientsin. Tsingtao, Haichow, Shanghai, Hangchow, Canton. Shanghai is bottled up. Tientsin Japan already controls. Blockading the other ports is none too difficult, was made a thousand times easier last week by President Roosevelt's order forbidding the exporting of munitions on U. S.-owned ships...