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...Paoting on one railroad, at Machang on the other, but got the Japanese Navy in such hot water that Japanese divisions had to be sent to its rescue, divisions badly needed in the real theatre of war, North China. The Chinese divisions were still on the Peiping-Hankow and Tientsin-Pukow railroads last week, so General Kazuki, now reinforced, moved south against them. Whereupon Japanese soldiers promptly found themselves out of the mud but in the water. Torrential rains and dikes blasted by Chinese flooded miles of countryside, waist deep. Japanese planes could bomb Machang almost at will, but Japanese...
...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...
...White Russian bravos who, according to rumor, have been doing Japan's dirty work for years in Manchukuo. In 1929 he collected $700,000 in Imperial Russian funds from the Yokohama Specie Bank. Fortnight ago he was reported responsible for a raid on the Soviet consulate in Tientsin. Peiping's alarm was caused by a new report that he was on his way to raid the Soviet's Peiping Embassy...
...these generals put all their troops into the campaign Chiang Kai-shek can count on nearly a million men. So far Japan apparently expects to oppose all this with just one general. Lieut. General Kiyoshi Kazuki, commandant at Tientsin (see cut), who was not only fighting Japan's war last week but busying himself with the details of setting up another Japanese puppet state in the Peiping North China area. During all this Premier Fumimaro Konoye took to his bed in Tokyo, ostensibly overcome by the heat...
...were supposed to be coming and impudently bombed the important city of Paoting. In a further provoking challenge to Dictator Chiang, Japanese obtained the resignation of his subordinate commanding in North China, General Sung Cheh-yuan, and set up in his stead General Chang Tsu-chung. As mayor of Tientsin, he was approved by the Japanese and so far as Tokyo knows he is "loyal." Thus last week a Chinese tool of Japan was set up in Peiping as the executive of a piece of China as large as Texas. After touring about Peiping, optimistic Japanese Colonel Takeo Imai...