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...Kwangsi Province and its capital, Kweilin, had all kinds and grades of equipment: U.S. artillery, Russian tanks, Jap or Chinese guns. Some had fired away the last shell before the climax of the campaign came. Some were exhausted, others untried. In one corner of the Jap flank General Hsueh Yueh had 4,000 men-but only 2,000 serviceable rifles. Other units lacked boards to construct shelters, lacked signal flags for communicating with American airplanes, lacked radios to link their own flanks to their own headquarters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF ASIA: The Taste of Defeat | 9/25/1944 | See Source »

Tired Troops. Before the enemy stood the tired Chinese armies of round-faced, explosive General Hsueh Yueh. Once some of China's finest, these troops had been run through the meat grinder at Changteh last November; had still not recovered. They had had to pull out of Changsha after a stubborn, hopeless defense, to escape annihilation. This week the armies, beat out, short of food, retreated painfully on foot. Where they could stand and fight, no one seemed to know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF ASIA: New Chinese Wall? | 7/3/1944 | See Source »

Teaching Fellows in Electronics: William C. Bohn, of Maplewood, N. J., S.B. Harvard '25; George L. Harvey, of Atlanta, Go., S.M. University of Arkansas '40; James R. Hooper Jr., of Dedham, Mass., S.M. Harvard '39; Alfred Keck, of Hyde Park, Mass., S.M. Harvard '41; Yu-yueh A. Mao, of Pingyueh, Kweichow, China, S.M. Harvard '41; David Middleton, of New York, N. Y., A.B. Harvard '42; Sidney Soloway, of Worcester, Mass., S.B. Worcester Polytechnic Institute '41; Leo W. Tobin Jr., of Flint, Mich., A.B. Harvard '42; and Guy Worsley, of Pennington, N. J., A.M. Cambridge University, England...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD FACULTY ENLARGED AGAIN | 7/27/1942 | See Source »

...recipienin are Te-k'un Cheng 1G, of Kulangan, Amoy, China; John IL, Cox 1G, of Naugatuck, Cohn.; James It, Hightower 2G, of Canton, China; Yueh-hwa Lin 2G, of Foochow, China; Bu-yu Teng 1G, of Hunan, China; and Arthur F. Wright 2G, of Portland...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College Appoints Eight As Yenching Graduate Fellows | 6/7/1939 | See Source »

Eighty-four thousand copies of the same sutra, he says, were printed by order of Prince Ch'ien Su, of the Kingdom of Wu-yueh, and deposited in the cavities, made in the bricks user to build the pagoda on West Lake, Hangchow, which in later centuries became to be known as the Lai-Fung Pagoda. Tourists call it the Red Pagoda because of its color...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chinese Engraving Made In 974 A.D. Is Owned By Widener-- Greene Found It | 10/1/1938 | See Source »

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