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...made their main push along the strategic Lunghai east-west railroad, which at Chengchow connects with the Peking-Hankow line (see map). Fortnight ago, retreating Chinese turned and drove an advance column of 10,000 Japanese, under famed little Lieutenant General Kenji Doihara, "Lawrence of Manchuria," into a bottleneck area between the broad Yellow River and the railway. For nine days Chinese forces, often behind providential screens of swirling yellow dust, charged at the Japanese ranks, attempted to wipe out the 10,000. Finally Japanese reinforcements forded the river from the north under artillery bombardment, helped Japan's "Lawrence...
...troops pressed at its sides. Capture of Chengchow would enable the Japanese to right-angle down 300 miles of railway to Hankow. Only serious obstacle in their path will be the Chinese defense fortifications in the southern Honan mountains near Sinyang. Meanwhile, two Japanese forces pushing from the Nanking area to Hankow, one paralleling the swollen Yangtze, the other striking overland through southern Anhwei Province, last week were bogged down by heavy rains, inefficient transport. After a long silence, small Japanese warships shelled towns on the Yangtze some 60 miles upriver from Wuhu, leading observers to believe that they would...
Next morning, motoring to Germany with William F. Rueff, U. S. art student resident in Munich, a young British journalist and a Sudeten German deputy in the Czech Parliament, Unity's car was brought to a halt by military police in a military area...
...Experimental Farm and, until a month ago, a highway that bisected the airport's 4,200-foot North-South runway. Last summer airline pilots, exasperated by years of shilly-shallying by politicos with options on or interests in most available airport property in the Washington area, threatened to boycott the unsafe Washington Airport. Next day, the District Airport Commission recommended a site, at Campsprings, Md., ten miles southeast of the Capital. Passed by the Senate, a bill providing for a $3,500,000 airport on the recommended site has since awaited action by the House...
Announcement was made yesterday by President Conant of the names of the recipients, selected from the 15 states comprising the National Scholarship area...