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Padded Uniforms, The sturdy North Chinese soldier fights (hyperbolic Mr. Lo notwithstanding) neither unarmed nor unclothed. His rifle, his cotton uniform stuffed with wadding and his tough constitution, inured to sub-zero winters, should make him no mean match in freezing Jehol for men from Japan's warm islands. Last week Japan's three-barbed offensive, closing in on Chengteh, the capital of Jehol, from Kailu, Chinchow and Suichung, advanced through snows as much as a foot deep, braved blizzards which reduced visibility at times to nil, plunged on with thermometers so low that Japanese machine guns occasionally...
...northern spearhead marched Japan's Sixth Infantry (from her balmy, almost tropical island of Kyushu). Wearing mittens, shawls and everything they could put or tie on, the tropical Sixth rushed at 12° below zero upon Chinese who shot first from behind the rocks of rolling foothills, then from behind the crags of higher and higher mountains as they fell back upon Chihfeng...
...Even on zero nights Chilean policemen must patrol the pass beneath "The Christ of the Andes." Stabbing the dark with electric torches they discovered the stalled motorcade. The policemen did not ask to see passports, for passports are no longer needed between Argentina and Chile. But to find in eight shabby sedans eight shifty-eyed men and 40 young brides & seamstresses was a coincidence pointing to only one thing: the brothels of Buenos Aires...
...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...
...from increasing, the circulation of the Charleston Record soon dropped to zero, for the simple reason that it ceased to appear. Editor Gething explained that there had been a mechanical breakdown. Last week it became known that South Carolina's Governor Blackwood, in order to express the hospitable sentiments of his State, had made Edward F. Hutton a Lieutenant Colonel on his staff...