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...Shanghai tragedy ended with a quick curtain which remained down for four hours. Two men tugged the curtain down, negotiated with Japanese and Chinese officers the four-hour truce. Tugger Father Jacquinot is Rector of Shanghai's St. Francis Xavier College, lost an arm at Verdun, France. Tugger Lieut.-Colonel Francis Hayley Bell, retired, is British, indomitable...
Woosung was China's Verdun. Day after day Japanese warships in the river blasted away at the Chinese batteries (pausing politely to let U. S. and British steamers and warships pass). But the Chinese, for once grimly determined, held on. The redoubts of the forts were blown into heaps of muck. Three thousand Japanese bluejackets went ashore to occupy Woosung Village. No sooner did they move out against the forts than the battered trenches came to life with such a withering rifle and machine gun fire that the Japanese were forced back. Back into action went the ships...
...friends, towering Minister Maginot was always "The Sergeant." At the beginning of the War he gave up his seat in the Chamber and enlisted as a private. He lost a leg at Verdun, and realizing that after the War he would value the votes of thousands of poilus, refused to accept any promotion beyond a sergeant's stripes. Always immaculately dressed, formidable champion of the French militarists, Sergeant Maginot carried his sabre-rattling beyond politics. Despite his wooden leg he was an excellent fencer. France buried him last week with all the funeral honors she had bestowed on Marshal...
Marshall Philippe Petain, defender of Verdun in 1916, who came to the United States this fall, paid a secret visit to Harvard at a time when it was generally believed that he was on the high seas returning to France...
...final A. E. F. engagement?biggest in U.S. military history?occurred between the Argonne Forest and the Meuse River just west of Verdun. Foch's purpose was to drive the Germans back on the Ardennes Forest, coop them up, cut their rail communications to the western front. General Pershing had only two weeks to transfer his ist Army from St. Mihiel to this new sector and organize his attack. Many of his divisions were inexperienced in battle. Ahead of him lay rough, heavily fortified country...