Nationalist Chinese Trained by the U.S. Army (Yank, 1943)This article will come as a surprise to the historical revisionists who run the Chiang Kai-Schek memorial in Taipei where U.S. involvement in W.W. II is oddly remembered only as having been the nation that sold oil to the Japanese. It is a well-illustrated YANK MAGAZINE article filed from India regarding the military training of Chinese infantry under the watchful eye of General Joe Stilwell's (1883 – 1946) drill instructors:
"But the Chinese had little, if any experience with modern weapons, particularly field artillery pieces. Nor had any of them ever had live ammunition for practice. So, with weapons and supplies furnished China under the U.S. lend-lease agreement, Uncle Joe Stilwell's picked force of American noncoms started to use their new equipment."
Japan Sinks American Warship (Literary Digest, 1937)"'Bombs rained like hailstones and churned the waters all around the ship like geysers.' said Earl Leaf, United Press correspondent in China and eyewitness of the sinking of the United States gunbpat PANAY
, by Japanese aviators, in the Yangtze River about 26 miles above Nanking; "....The British gunboat LADYBIRD and BEE also were fired on, and soon Foreign Minister Anthony Eden was telling an angry House of Commons that:
"His Majesty's Ambassador to Tokyo has made the strongest protest to the Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs.'"
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The Fall of Nanking (The Literary Digest, 1937)"'Exactly four months after the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese hostilities on the Shanghai peninsula' a NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE correspondent cabled from Shanghai last week, 'Nanking, China's abandoned capital, for the third time in it's more than 2000 years of history, was captured by an alien foe when the Japanese military forces completely occupied the city.' ...To this, Quo Taichi, Chinese ambassador to England, replied defiantly: 'Capture of Nanking will by no means mark the end of China's resistance.'"
The Wartime Leadership of Sian-Kuan Lin (Collier's Magazine, 1945)"As well as anything else, the leadership of Sian-Kuan Lin explains why the people of China continue to wage barehanded battle against the overwhelming might of Japan. It is a story that starts in 1927 when Chang Kai-shek marched North against the war lords, fighting to make Sun Yat Sen's dream of a great Chinese republic come true."
The Japanese Drive on Beijing (The Literary Digest, 1933)"The aggressive ambitions of Japan know no bounds. The occupation of Peiping [Beijing] will lead to further aggression in Shantung and Shansi and other northern provinces, and will result either in the establishment of a new puppet regime in North China."
"The Shanghai SHUN PAO, an independent newspaper, bewails the futility of the uncoordinated resistance which has prevailed among China's forces since the capture of Jehol, and it adds:"
"The only possibilities now are peace by compromise or a continuance of war. Despite the dangers of the latter course it is the only possible solution, but resistance must be coordinated under an able leader, China must fight or become a second Korea."
The Truce of Tangku (The Literary Digest, 1933)This news article reported that a cessation of hostilities was agreed upon by both the Empire of Japan and China in the campaign that began two years earlier with the Japanese invasion of Manchuria.
"Thus ends the five month sanguinary offensive in North China which threatened to result in Japanese military occupation of Tientsin and Peiping... the terms of the truce provide that the Chinese troops shall withdraw behind a line 130 miles long which runs behind parallel to and from twenty-five to thirty-five miles east of Tientsin-Pieping.
"When the withdrawal of Chinese troops is completed the Japanese agree that their own troops will retire to the Great Wall, which the Japanese claim is the boundary of the state of Manchukuo."
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