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Reference is made in TIME of Jan. 16 to the Chinese 19th Route Army, famed for its heroic defense of Shanghai. Could you tell me why it is called the 19th Route Army? Is it because there are routes in China to be guarded and this is the army that is ordinarily assigned to guard the 19th of these routes, or is it because there are armies in China designated "route"' armies in contradistinction to all other Chinese armies, and this is the 19th of the ''route" variety...
During the week Chinese journalists, knowing that their countrymen thirsted to read of Chinese feats of heroism, produced some exciting stories, mostly at Shanghai. Best was the Shanghai story of how "General Teng Ti-mei and 360 soldiers wearing only summer uniforms of thin cotton had made an heroic last stand in sub-zero weather" on Mount Takushan, 125 mi. southeast of Mukden, since the middle of December...
...Nanking the so-called Chinese Government took no steps to send either the heroic igth or any other Chinese army to recapture Shanhaikwan-an impossible task. "Every Chinese should feel happy and honored to die like the Shanhaikwan heroes," bleated Nanking's Daily News. "Such bravery and heroism is proof that there is hope of a rebirth of the Chinese nation and of Chinese glory...
...until a U. S. engineer arrives to work in the same project-the building of a power dam which represents the one opened at Dnieprostroy last autumn. A rivalry arises between the two men in which the Russian, at first thoroughly worsted, struggles to catch up. His efforts, less heroic than amusing, in one sequence produce the kind of comic suspense on which early Harold Lloyd pictures were constructed. The mechanic in charge of a steam crane gets drunk. The Russian foreman orders him out of the cab and climbs in himself. With very little knowledge of how the contraption...
Next Plan? Early last spring newspapers throughout Russia blossomed with news of the "Second Five-Year Plan." Last week no Soviet leader so much as mentioned it. Rumors were current that 1933 is to be a "Plan Leap Year.'' that heroic efforts will be made to solve Russia's present problems without tackling more...