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...Soviet General "Galen," later known as Marshal Vassily Bluecher and recently purged by Stalin. Hong Kong dispatches this week reported Chiang & Advisers about to attempt a Chinese drive to recapture Canton, based on rallying and reorganizing the large Cantonese forces which gave up the city without a fight, withdrew intact...
...Chinese explanation: "They handcuffed themselves.") Neutral correspondents estimate at about 175,000 the number of Chinese second grade troops killed at Shanghai, have reported that although some few of the Generalissimo's best troops saw action and gave a good account of themselves the bulk of them withdrew to Canton, thence to Hankow and last week to the West...
...trained General Abdul Rahim Haj Mohammed, former Turkish-Arab commander, have filtered into Jerusalem, some entering secretly through underground passages, others in disguise through the Old City's gates. By increasingly violent terrorism they had made life so dangerous for individual officers of the law that the British withdrew from most of the Old City to the largely Christian and Jewish city beyond the walls, there to await reinforcements...
Rebels who had sniped at their enemies from the minarets of mosques showed surprisingly little resistance, gradually withdrew to the Mosque of Omar area, knowing that British troops were under orders not to desecrate those sacred precincts. In two days' operations nine Arabs were killed, no British. Arresting all men whose shoulders showed the bruises of rifle butts, Tommies put 300 suspects in a concentration camp on the site of King Herod's ancient citadel. Although a 24-hour curfew prevailed, the British command showed its regard for Moslem religious feelings by agreeing to a request...
...last revalued in July 1937-so as to make a "paper profit" last week of 34,500,000,000 francs ($931,500,000). The mobilization bill was footed at 12,800,000,000 francs; 4,000,000,000 was paid in cash to those who through necessity or fear withdrew their money from the savings banks when France started to "march''-not to war, as it turned...