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...officer traversed 2,000 miles with Chinese soldiers. On one trip in northern Honan he crossed the Japanese-patrolled Yellow River with a small guerrilla band. Estimating that at least 600,000 Chinese soldiers operated in the occupied areas, Captain Carlson declared the Japanese control only garrisoned towns, railway lines, main highways...
...Transportation Act of 1920 created a U. S. Railroad Labor Board of nine. Woodrow Wilson's sensible appointees were soon succeeded by the patronage appointees of Warren Harding. A strike of 400,000 railroad shopmen in 1922 thoroughly exposed the board's incompetence and in 1926 the Railway Labor Act replaced it with a five-man U. S. Board of Mediation. This failed to succeed because the law provided no penalties for evasion of the board's decisions and because Calvin Coolidge's appointees were generally inefficient. In 1934, against the bitter lobbying of the Association...
...unaccountably lost). So fortnight ago the Japanese seized the hill. The Russians fought back and all last week Japanese communiqués were filled with accounts of the repulse of Russian attacks in force. The Japanese laid great emphasis on their "restraint" when Russian planes bombed the Rashin-Hsinking railway which, since it lies in Korea, is certainly in Japanese territory...
...Japanese have made the Peiping-Hankow Railway a fortified zone, with every station an impregnable castle of sandbags and with hundreds of pillboxes between the stations. We guerrillas cannot capture a station without suffering heavy casualties...
...Meanwhile, the Japanese are finding it extremely difficult to penetrate our territory between the railways because we have destroyed all the motor roads and our guerrillas are on guard within ten miles of every railway station. Both armies are now searching for new tactics...