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There were four main areas of Chinese push. Up north in Shansi a Chinese force of 20,000 was at work. In central China, near Nanking, Chinese mercenary troops of the Japanese puppet Wang Ching-wei reportedly revolted, blew up two Japanese troop trains and attacked several small villages. A Chinese force also attacked the town of Langsi and "liquidated all of the Japanese defenders." Farther south, only 100 miles from Shanghai, another Chinese Army forced its way across the Chientang River. In the extreme southwest, whence the Japanese carelessly drained troops for the investment of Indo-China, some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Push of High Hope | 11/4/1940 | See Source »

...terrorists who serve either the Japanese or their Chinese puppet, Wang Ching-wei, have bombed the Post plant five times, slaughtered guards, wounded pressmen, and last month murdered Samuel H. Chang, director of the Post and its Chinese edition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Where U.S. newsmen block the road of Japanese ambition | 10/17/1940 | See Source »

Last week a storm broke upon Shanghai newsmen in a downpour of unexpected violence. First warning came like a clap of thunder in the form of an executive decree, issued by Wang Ching-wei's Japanese-puppet Government at Nanking, ordering the arrest and deportation from China of six U. S. newsmen, one Briton for "endeavoring to undermine the Chinese [i.e., Wang] Government ... by distributing rumors and improper statements endangering the Republic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: New Order in Shanghai | 7/29/1940 | See Source »

...warning only was the Nanking decree. Neither Britain nor the U. S. speaks to Wang Ching-wei: they could not obey his order without granting tacit recognition to his Government. As long as the seven newsmen stay inside Shanghai's International Settlement, they are safe from arrest. The six who are U. S. citizens cannot be deported anyhow without a trial before the U. S. District Court for China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: New Order in Shanghai | 7/29/1940 | See Source »

...follower of Wang Ching-wei, he denounced Japanese aggression until Wang deserted the Chungking Government, took up with Japan. Two months ago he started the Chinese News Agency, which hopes to absorb all domestic & foreign news channels in China. Last week Wang's Tang, having made friends with Japan, attacked "American imperialism" in the Japanese-controlled part of China's press...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: New Order in Shanghai | 7/29/1940 | See Source »

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