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Japanese troops continued to press out from Hankow, where some 5,300 captured Chinese soldiers are soon to erect a memorial to commemorate the Japanese conquest. At week's end Japanese forces, driving southward along the Canton-Hankow rail line, had captured the strategic city of Yochow, 122 miles southwest of Hankow, and the northeastern gateway to Hunan Province where Chiang Kai-shek has established new military headquarters...
...broadcast from Chung-king a nationwide appeal: "All the Chinese people must work for closer cooperation with Russia." United Press reported neutral military attachés in China estimate that about 100 Soviet Red Army officers have now arrived to advise Generalissimo Chiang and his subordinate commanders. The original conquest of China by Chiang Kai-shek (TIME, Oct. 25, 1926) was accomplished with the technical assistance of Soviet General "Galen," later known as Marshal Vassily Bluecher and recently purged by Stalin. Hong Kong dispatches this week reported Chiang & Advisers about to attempt a Chinese drive to recapture Canton, based...
Spain and Ethiopia. The vote of confidence secured by Neville Chamberlain specifically covered his announced intention to declare in force the Italo-British treaty of last April. This instrument recognizes the Ethiopian conquest on the condition that "substantial" numbers of Italian troops are withdrawn from Spain. Spain recently said good-by to 10,000 Italians. There are still some 40,000 Italians fighting for General Franco, but Mr. Chamberlain told the House last week...
Another guest lecturer, Professor Frederick H. Cramer of Mount Holyoke College, will speak at 8 o'clock in Laurence Hall tomorrow night on 'The conquest of the Universities by the Emperors of Rome." Dr. Cramer is engaged in a series of lectures under the auspices of the Graduate School of Education...
Premier Daladier has lengthened French working hours by scrapping the 40-Hour-Week Law in "industries vital to national safety." He has broken with the Communist Party, formerly a pillar of the French Popular Front coalition, to the delight of Berlin. And Premier Daladier has recognized the Italian conquest in Ethiopia by appointing Andre Frangois-Poncet to Rome as the first French Ambassador ever accredited to "Emperor Vittorio Emanuele." All this meant that France had been scared into swerving Right...