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...Chinese and Japanese troops swept back and forth across Chapei's Paitse Bridge. Japan threatened to carry bombing operations 50 miles inland if further Chinese reinforcements arrived. This would mean bombing the richest paddy fields in China, between Shanghai and Nanking. Shanghai's defender, pale scholarly General Tsai Ting-kai risked it. Thirty-nine years old, he boasts that this is his 170th military campaign...
...have won so far, and we will win again," said General Tsai, "in principle...
...Japan's warships, all her guns, for all her planes, for all her 10,000 sol diers and sailors, Shanghai's Chinese de fenders under pale slender little General Tsai Ting-kai were doggedly holding...
From the bleak little Siberian town of Habarovsk flashed news last week of an informal meeting between one Tsai Yun-shen, representing China-and one Simbn-ovsky, Soviet. Deploring the Sino-Russian dispute, they signed a peace protocol. The terms: Immediate restoration of joint management of the Chinese Eastern Railway (cause of all the strife); withdrawal of the Soviet army from Manchuria; mutual release of civilian and military prisoners; mutual reopening of consulates; a formal conference at Moscow, Jan. 25, to settle all questions still under dispute. World chancelleries took note, awaited word of the Moscow agenda...
...casualties but sustained only 41. They claimed that the Nanking soldiers gave provocation for this punishment by looting in the Japanese quarter and by raping Japanese women. The Nankingese declared that the Japanese had not only fired upon them without provocation but had seized Nanking Special Commissioner Tsai-Kung-Sze, cut off his nose, gouged out his eyes, shot him dead and burned down a building over...