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...Tsinan, capital of Shantung Province, is some 150 miles behind the Japanese front lines in Central China. For three months it has been part of Japan's "conquered territory" and the base of operations for the Japanese thrust at China's "Hindenburg Line" along the Lunghai Railway in southern Shantung. Garrisoned only by a small Japanese force because all available troops have been sent to the front, the Japanese were forced to employ two Chinese battalions, who surrendered when the city was occupied, as Tsinan's military police. Last week hundreds of Chinese soldiers, disguised as coolies...
...Soviet railway shop work is not going well, Chief of Railway Equipment Industries Lev Krivorotchenko was ousted last week, charged with "accepting deliberately falsified statistics on the production of locomotives in 1937." Since Lev Krivorotchenko was an ordinary locomotive engineer when he was promoted last year as one of Dictator Stalin's favorite "New Bolsheviks" to the head of the Soviet Union's entire railway equipment industry, it is logical that he had "accepted" statistics while learning what statistics...
...Soviet rail transport is not going well, Railway Commissar Aleksei Bakulin was ousted last week and his commissariat turned over to Heavy Industry Commissar Lazar Kaganovich, who is very close to the Dictator. Since in nearly every part of Russia delinquent railwaymen were lined up on station platforms and dispatched by firing squads at the orders of Lazar Kaganovich the last time he was Railway Commissar, he is the logical choice...
...have said that he would favor letting the roads go "through the wringer" to reduce top-heavy capitalizations were it not that large insurance companies and banks would suffer greatly. That afternoon he told his press conference that he had decided against the outright subsidy proposed last fortnight by Railway Labor's George Harrison. Subsidies are hard to stop, said the President. What if, for example, the Government had undertaken to subsidize trolley cars ten years ago when that industry went on the skids? Precisely what he would do, said he, he still did not know, but sometime this...
Canton Japanese planes bomb military uniform factory near U.S. Consulate General 300 reported killed and 400 wounded--Airdromes, railway stations and marching troops bombed and machine-gunned at many places in Kwangtung, Fukien and Kiangsu Provinces