Horrors Of War
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73. British Commander Breaks Up a Blockade
When detachments of Japanese shock troops failed to penetrate the warehouse-fortress held by the “doomed battalion” in Shanghai, two Japanese Navy launches tried to attack the fort from the water on October 29th, 1937. Immediately Chinese rivermen masse their sampans as a barrier against the approaching armed boats. The Japs were blocked! Then rivermen at the other end collected their boats in a similar barricade. The miniature navy was trapped. For a while it looked as if the Japs themselves were a doomed detachment! Finally Brigadier A. P. D. Telfer-Smollett, British troop commander-in-chief, arrived to tell the Japanese they would have to get away from the British defense sector and ordered the boom removed. Thus ended for the moment a little war within a war that bade to become historic. After the Japs escaped, the rivermen built a larger boom... just in case.
To know the HORRORS OF WAR is to want PEACE
This is one of the second series of HORRORS OF WAR picture cards and true stories of today's warfare. Save to get a complete history. Copyright 1938, Gum, Inc., Phila., Pa.”
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101 Japanese General Killed in Ambush
In February, 1938, a Japanese flanking column which struck west of Pengpu towards the Lunghai corridor was held up and then pushed back by stiff Chinese hand grenade and bayonet attacks. The Japanese Major General Nakajima and 40 other Japanese soldiers and officers were reported killed in an ambush by Chinese mobile troops near Lionghsiatien on the northern Tientsin-Pukow Railway front. Concealed in a rocky ledge the Chinese had waited for the approach of the Tokyo column led by the Major General and his staff. No sooner did they come within range of the lurking Chinese than they were annihilated by the machine guns hidden in the rocks. Two days later Japan announced the recall of three of her highest military commanders in China, giving as reasons: the success of Chinese counterattacks; breaches of discipline; and friction with other nations.
To know the HORRORS OF WAR is to want PEACE
This is one of the second series of HORRORS OF WAR picture cards and true stories of today's warfare. Save to get a complete history. Copyright 1938, Gum, Inc., Phila., Pa.”
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"259 Chinese Pilot Makes Death Dive in Yangtze"
“Japanese war craft pushing up the Yangtze river towards Hankow on August 8th, 1938 were met by a squadron of Chinese bombing planes 110 to 150 miles from the provisional capital, sinking three and damaging four of an estimated 90 ships. One daredevil flyer valuing his life less than an opportunity to die for his country sank one Jap gunboat by deliberately plunging his burning, bomb laden plane to the vessel's deck! The Chinese pilot dived headlong to the gunboats deck when Japanese anti-aircraft set his plane aflame, exploding his bombs. Chinese officers proudly referred to the deed as “another case of a Chinese fire heroically sacrificing his life at a terrific cost of the Japanese.” Furthermore, the Chinese claimed that the Japanese advance up the river had been definitely halted by counter-attacks and floods.
To know the HORRORS OF WAR is to want PEACE
This is one of the second series of HORRORS OF WAR picture cards and true stories of today's warfare. Save to get a complete history. Copyright 1938, Gum, Inc., Phila., Pa.”
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270. Jap Machine-Gunners Pursue Swimming Airman
“After the China National Aviation Corp. plane had been downed by Jap flyers it was followed by pursuit planes which continued to machine-gun it until it was sunk, and when Pilot Woods started swimming across the river they began to machine-gun him.” These words are taken from a note dispatched to Japan on August 25th, 1938 by U.S. Secretary of State Hull, making emphatic objection to Japan for attacking a Chinese-American airplane. It was recalled that Japan had apologized and offered to pay indemnity for seeking the Pinay in Chinese waters. Nevertheless the protest was rejected on “factual grounds”. Two German passenger planes were subsequently sunk early in September. (Hugh Woods had been a commercial pilot in the Orient since 1933. He was born in Winfield, Kansas and attended Fort Wayne, Kansas State College. He was a friend of the late Frank Hawks, famous aviator, killed in flight.)
To know the HORRORS OF WAR is to want PEACE
This is one of the second series of HORRORS OF WAR picture cards and true stories of today's warfare. Save to get a complete history. Copyright 1938, Gum, Inc., Phila., Pa.”
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