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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...times he traveled over roads that were cut through beds of coal, with great chunks of shining anthracite used for fence rocks. Sometimes his path was a rushing muddy stream, over whose slippery rocks he had to pick his way. This precarious route, he found, was the lifeline of Chinese Armies. He passed numberless coolies, struggling and crawling with animal patience through the mountain gaps, overloaded with blankets, clothes, grenades, machine guns, rifles, cartridges, medical supplies, telephone wire; braying mules, struggling under dismantled bits of artillery; sick soldiers straggling from the front; stretchers jogged over the painful ways; beggars keening...
...closing days of last August the object of his affections-a blond Bavarian girl named Eva Helen Braun-moved into Hitler's official residence in Berlin, the great Chancellery on Wilhelmstrasse. There she occupies the honored position of typical German Hausfrau in the Hitler menage, and there she conducts herself as if she were the wife of the Nazi dictator...
...Wasserburgerstrasse 12; telephone 480844.' The Nazis considered it natural that Evi's years of faithful service should thus be rewarded, and her relationship to Hitler remained undefined. . . . She began referring to him as her betrothed. ... He also built for Evi a small house adjoining his own great estate at Berchtesgaden, and made a point of paying for this with his own money instead of ordering it from party funds...
Similar dispatches had previously trickled into similar oblivion: month ago, for instance, one described a guerrilla action near Great Wutai Shan, the sacred Buddhist mountain in Shansi-when Chinese caught an unsuspecting Japanese brigade and killed a full third of the force...
...General Ma Chan-shan, "Giant Horse,"hero of Manchuria; the famous Communist 8th Route guerrillas; the cream of China's Government troops; and provincial troops, who are fighting for the soil on which they grew up. Early in the war, the Japanese chased the Chinese from the great alluvial plain around Peking into Shansi's mountains. Fighting has ranged, and still ranges, all over the province. Most coveted area is the Chin River Valley at the centre of the province-a tiny, complete world shut away by cupping mountains; a valley once bright with wheat, cotton, corn, yellow...