Word: whitings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sick Men. Behavior of their maddened troops is a source of great shame to responsible men in the Japanese Army and Government. Along his way, White learned some good reasons for that behavior. He was told that most of the Japanese soldiers in Shansi have been there over two years. They have had no furlough, no home leave, not even a Peking weekend...
...fighting," White wrote, "is nerve-tearing. A Japanese soldier sits in a muddy garrison post exposed to guerrilla sniping; he camps in a muddy town hated by its people; he goes out guerrilla chasing and is probably wounded, perhaps killed. Frequently supplies fail to come through and the unit goes on short mess-or starves...
Progress. "The Chinese," White concluded, "have advanced during the war from a fourth rate Army to a second rate Army. This is progress. Before the war the Chinese Armies were notorious for the fact that they could run faster and retreat in worse disorder than any known national group of armed men. This was understandable because of the world in which they lived, and the causes for which they were asked to die. Cowardice was common-'kai pa' ('I'm afraid') was heard on every hand. But the present Chinese Army has spirit. It glows...
...Italy sent 80 Savoia-Marchettis to Finland and Britain sent 30 Bristol Blenheims. If the sub-zero temperatures and the shortage of daylight did not cripple their effectiveness, the Finns had a good target in Russia's two main supply lines, the Leningrad-Murmansk Railway and the Baltic-White Sea Canal. Aggressive and continuous air attack on the rail line would leave Russia's raiding columns marooned in the wastes of north Finland. By week's end the Finns had taken to the air and were reported to have bombed the railway...
...again went out into the blackness. After a few minutes the shadowy form of a Moroccan slipped up to the captain and made a rapid report in Arabic." His patrol had grenaded a German patrol. About midnight a rocket shell cast a bluish-white light on the German ridge. " 'Ah,' said the French officer, 'you see, the Boches are mad. One of their patrols did not return on schedule, so they are showing the way home. It is probably the group with the wounded...