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Making a general appeal to the people of the United States to stop selling war materials to Japan, Major Evans F. Carlson, intelligence officer of the U. S. Marine Corps and military observer for eighteen months among Chinese guerilla bands, told a capacity audience at the Union yesterday that peace in China could be accomplished by an embargo on war materials to Japan...
Pointing out that the United States is helping Finland materially against a ruthless aggressor, Major Carlson saw no reason why this country could not help china by refusing to help Japan...
Closely connected with guerilla bands in Shansi and other provinces of northern China, Major Carlson said that China is like a checkerboard with the Japanese holding the lines and the Chinese the squares. Meaning that the invaders control the railways and the defenders hold the space between, he recalled that in one place, a small defending force surrounded on four sides has not surrendered to the enemy in almost a year of fighting...
Under the auspices of the Freshman Union Committee Major Evans F. Carlson, U. S. Marine Corps (retired) and former American Intelligence Officer in China, will speak in the Upper Common Room of the Union at 4:30 o'clock today on "Eighteen Months at the Front with China's Army...
With this speech Major Carlson will show uncensored pictures of the Japanese invasion which he has gathered while spending a year and a half as special observer with the Chinese regular and guerilla units. So completely has he lived with the Chinese forces during their attempts to resist Japan's "New Order in East Asia" that the British Ambassador in China has described him as the best-informed western military observer in China...