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...Japanese munitions and its Chinese officials blandly obliging, that General Kazuki did not bother to keep Tientsin heavily garrisoned, hurried almost all the Japanese troops he landed directly inland toward Peiping. Suddenly about 2 a. m. Chinese artillery secretly brought close to Tientsin started shelling the central and east railway stations used by the Japanese. Simultaneously Chinese snipers, evidently well organized on a citywide scale, began firing from the rooftops, hurling hand grenades. In the streets some Chinese soldiers attacked the Japanese. Others seized bargeloads of Japanese beer, burst into the offices of the Dairen Steamship Co. and stayed through...
Weeks had elapsed since the Generalissimo was reported to be actually sending units of China's crack troops ("Chiang's Own") northward to throw the Japanese out of the Peiping area. Japanese airmen, still looking for these Chinese forces last week, flew 85 miles down the railway up which the Chinese were supposed to be coming and impudently bombed the important city of Paoting. In a further provoking challenge to Dictator Chiang, Japanese obtained the resignation of his subordinate commanding in North China, General Sung Cheh-yuan, and set up in his stead General Chang Tsu-chung...
Bills limiting freight trains to 70 cars or a half-mile, sometimes also restricting passenger trains to 14 or 16 cars, have been introduced in 29 other States, always strongly backed by organized railway labor. The Legislatures of Louisiana, Nevada, Oklahoma, California passed them. In California, however, the measure was killed by a Governor's veto; in the other States the laws were found unconstitutional by Federal courts...
...stubborn slowness of Chinese forces to yield to his demands that they clear out of North China (TIME, July 26). In an action which Japanese officials described as "maintaining prestige," General Kazuki had Japanese airmen heavily bomb Langfang, a station between Peiping and Tientsin on the railway from which area he was insisting that the Chinese 29th Army withdraw...
...good as new. Run by Youngstown's William Wilkoff, one of the founders of Youngstown Sheet & Tube, the company has about $1,300,000 in assets, needs cash to pay off some notes and to increase working capital so it can handle bigger orders in the railway car division, which also manufactures new cars...