Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 186, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 December 1931 — Page 1

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Clothe a Child for Christmas

T OOK behind the picture! Just try It in the homes of folk you know, or take a look in the downtown district these Christmas shopping days. The well-dressed hurry wfth bundles. Children groomed to fend off cold, laugh at Santa Claus. But alongside them, rubbing noses against display windows filled with clothing, and behind the daily picture of affluence are the children of hopelessness. Look behind the picture—and you’ll find boys and girls who ask only that Santa Claus bring them war mclothing for school. Thin sweaters cover, but don’t hide, shivering shoulders of these children. These are the boys and girls who await you in the Clothe-a-Child-for-Christ*ias plan of The Indianapolis Times. an TUST look behihd the picture of their own lives and you see naught of faith. The only faith they have is being forgotten. They may wonder why the boy or the girl standing near them beside a store window has a warm, woolly coat—but they don’t complain. They know that plaints go unheeded in Poverty Lane. Nor arc they jealous of those of their own caste who might receive clothing. "If you can get a pair of shoes and some underwear for my Johnny, I’d appreciate it. I’ve got to put paper in his soles to keep the wet out and he hasn’t any underwear," one parent of the poor says. u tt a go into the home and see your child and his needs and then you shop for him, so that he’ll have one warm outfit in the snowy days ahead. The relief agencies of the Community Fund can not hope to make special gifts of clothing to needy children Christmas time. The agencies must spread their work over an entire year. But your enlistment in the Clothe-A-Child campaign enables those agencies to spread their work of relief over a wider area. The boys and girls clothed in this campaign will not need garments for a year. They know how to make clothing last, in Poverty Lane. So look behind the picture and join the Clothe-A-Child movement by calling Riley 5551. Twenty -one new pledges to clothe children, bringing the total children clothed to 143, are listed below. Washington Bowline teaeue, Illinois alleys (three boys). Block Optical T.adies* leaeue and Woman’s Social bowline leaeue (two <irls). Avalon Bowline leaeue. Pritchett alleys. Auditor's office of Indiananolis Stock. *ards (boy and eirl). Employes of Borne Insurance Comnanv f New Tork (two children!. Mr. and Mrs. John S. Newhouse, Cumberland. Ind. A County Judee (boy and eirl). Monday Before Christmas. Delta Rho chanter of the Phi Pi Tsi Sorority. Division of forestry, Statehouse. Coffee shoo of Hotel Harrison. Tau Gamma sorority. Out on North Capitol Avenue. Delta Gamma sorority. Butler university. H. J. Ronk, 1801 North Alabama street. (Other Donors on Page 5)

GANDHI LEAVES ROME Manhalma Fails to See Pope, Despite Last-Minute Efforts. P v United I're** ROME, Dec. 14.—Mahatma Gandhi left Rome today for Brindisi, ■where he will board a ship for Bambav, without seeing Pope Pius XI, although he made a last-min-ute effort to see the pontiff Sunday. "I would like to see the pope, but I understand that he does not see any one on Sundays.” Gandhi said. It was understood that the Mahatma’s costume of loin cloth and sandals was not considered appropriate for a papal audience. Gandhi visited headquarters of the Fascist party, the Roman forums, Palentine Hill, and the drill ground of the Fascist Youth organization where a salute was fired in his honor. COMA SERUM OFFERED Unknown Donor Comes to Aid of Boy in Sleeping Sickness. Pit United Press MEMPHIS, Tenn., Dec. 14. Physicians caring for Joe Huggins, 8-year-old sleeping sickness victim, who today entered the 56th day of a coma, have under consideration a serum offer made them by a Detroit man. They were reluctant to identify the donor or explain the properties of the serum until they had determined what action to take. The sufferer, whose case has attracted nation - wide attention showed no improvement today. Physicians said they were astonished by the resistance and stamina the boy is showing. Joe is being fed liquids through a tube.

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DEMOCRATS IN HOUSE HIT BY G. 0. P. BLAST Spokesman Beck Demands Unity for Legislation in Crisis. DEBT POLICIES RAPPED Senator Dill, in Assailing Program, Declares Aim Is Cancellation. By United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 14.—Republicans opened a vigorous counter-at-tack today in the house upon the controlling Democrats, criticising the inaction of the majority party and defending President Hoover. Representative James M. Beck (Rep., Pa.), lormerly solicitor-general of the United States, chosen as the administration spokesman, ridiculed Democrats for their "promiscuous speaking.” He demanded unity in what he called one of the four great crises of the world in the last 2,000 years. Simultaneously, the administration’s debt policies were denounced on the floor of the senate by Senator Dill iDem., Wash.), Dill said Secretary Mellon ‘‘must think the people are boobs” not to realize his policy means cancellation of European war debts to the United States. He introduced a bill asking President Hoover to call an international silver conference. Assails Smoot Bill In his speech he assailed a bill designed to relieve Europe and bolster the silver market at one operation, introduced by Chairman Smoot of the senate finance committee. The bill would authorize the secretary of treasury to accept silver from foreign governments in payment of debts to the United States. The value of the silver would be the average market price in the United States in the second calendar month preceding payment. An effort to bare all confidential state department notes in relation to Manchuria was made by Senator Hiram Johnson (Rep., Cal.). He introduced a resolution calling for all Manchurian communications with Japan, China, the League of Nations, and American representatives abroad. The resolution was referred without discussion to the Senate foreign relations committee. Wheeler Asks Relief Senator Wheeler (Dem., Mont.) Introduced a bill providing that 50,000,000 bushels of the wheat held by the farm board be ground into flour and given to the Red Cross for use in hunger relief. Beck, in the house, told Democrats "it is an undoubted fact that you have a prospect of electing the next President of the United States,” though, he said, it was too early to tell. He was appealing for unity and const .‘uctive action, he said, not only for Mr. Hoover, but for any President in a time like this. The Pennsylvanian received a very attentive hearing as he drew a dark picture of the yorld’s state today. The United States, he declared, is the only nation that can prevent civilization from being wrecked. "If we fail, then there is no hope,” he said. Hoover Is Defended Beck defended President Hoover’s right to negotiate the moratorium. He cited constitutional prerogatives and cases which he said prove that the President in the past usually has been right in foreign affairs and congress wrong.” The senate organized for business (Turn to Page 13) ‘ROUGH RIDER’ IS DEAD Otlo R. Winter, One of the Last of Roosevelt’s Troops, Passes. By United Press DALLAS. Tex., Dec. 14.—Otto R. Winter, one of the last of Roosevelt’s "Rough Riders,' was dead today at the age of 62. Winter, to whom war was a hobby, died on his farm near here. Winter numbered among his most thrilling adventures his part in a Venezuela revolution. His side lost and had not Roosevelt interceded, he might have been executed. He was credited with saving the life of Francisco Maderc, by hiding him while Diaz agents and United States authorities hunted the future j Mexican president.

NEW RULERS OF JAPAN ABANDON GOLD STANDARD

BY MILES W. VAUGHN United Press Staff Correspondent TOKIO, Dec. 14.—The Stock Exchange was closed today until Thursday after the new' government of Premier Tsuyoshi Inukai announced abandonment of the gold standard. Suspension of the gold standard virtually was completed by the cabinet’s decision to suspend conversion of notes for gold. The Yokohama Specie bank, which ordinarily makes exchange rates, did not quote the yen during today's business. Unofficial rates ranged between 38 and 40 cents, with actual settlements on New York at around 40 cents. It was understood that the government had decided to let the yen find its won level, which experts predicted would be near today's settlement figure. A section of the Japanese press believed that parliament would be dissolved late in January and that

Depression? This Crowd Doesn’t Give You That Idea

THEY come seeking gifts. And here they are, as the camera sees them —thousands who throng Indianapolis downtown streets daily and invade the stores as the Christmas season approaches. The picture, taken on the south side of Washington street looking toward Meridian street, brings forth the faces of some of the thousands of shoppers who will spend

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CHURCHILL IS FELLED BY CAB British Statesman’s Injuries May Be Serious. By United Press NEW YORK, Dec. 14.—Winston Churchill, noted British statesman and former chancellor of the exchequer, Is in danger of developing a pleural hemorrhage, it was learned today at Lenox Hill hospital, where he was taken Sunday night after being struck by a taxi. He at first was thought to be suffering only from a strained shoulder and cuts and bruises. Later, however, hospital attaches expressed fear a hemorrhage might develop. Nevertheless, they said, Churchill was “holding his own” this morning. Dr. Otto Pickhardt, summoned to attend Churchill, has arranged to make X-rays today and consult with Dr. Foster Kennedy. Churchill, who momentarily forgot that traffic in New York does not move on the left, as in London, stepped in front of a tab driven by Mario Contasino, Yonkers, as he started across a street to call at the apartment of Bernard M. Baruch, international banker. The British political leader exonerated the driver. Even if Churchill’s injuries do not develop into anything more serious, he will not be permitted to - return to his suite in the Waldorf Astoria today.

RAIL WAGES ARGUED Eastern Heads Open Parley as C. & N. Rejects Cut. By United Press NEW YORK, Dec. 14.—Eastern railroad presidents gathered here today to negotiate with labor on proposed wage slashes as Chicago & Northwestern employes voted against accepting a 10 per cent cut. According to F. H. Fljozdal, president of the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way employes, 75 per cent of the workers would rather strike than accept the cut. The executives’ meeting here today follows a general meeting at which a 10 per cent wage cut was proposed for all roads. Tuesday, western presidents will meet in Chicago, and later in the week southern rail heads will confer at Louisville. HIGH COURT RECESSES Quits for Holidays After Short Session; Reconvenes Jan. 4. By United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 14.—The supreme court recessed for the holidays after a short session today. It will reconvene Jan. 4.

a general election would follow soon after dissolution. The new government has only 170 seats in the lower chamber of parliament, compared with 267 held by the resigned Minseito party. Premier Unukai told correspondents he would appoint Kenkichi Yoshizawa. Japanese ambassador to Paris, and delegate to the League of Nations, foreign minister in the new government. The appointment had been expected and it was understood that Yoshizawa would accept. Abandonment of the gold standard was expected to bring rising prices on the stock exchange. The so-called new stock of the company heavily interested in the operation of the exchange was quoted unofficially at 200, a gain of 60 points. Living expenses and rents were expected to increase and restricted imports will affect large department stores which handle foreign merchandise. v

INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1931

Hoofer's Haps' Feared His Dancing Days Over; ‘Sir Galahad’ Chose River.

NEW YORK, Dec. 14.—Sir Galahad of "The Connecticut Yankee” feared for a year that his Broadway "hoofing days” had ended because of a leg injury received in an automobile accident. Sunday his body was identified on a slab at Bellevue hospital morgue, where it had lain since it was taken from the Hudson river Dec. 5. It was that of Jack Thompson, El Paso, Tex. Thompson, who fought the breaks that followed his accident, who spent months in a hospital, recuperated in El Paso, then underwent two operations, could not fight off the fear that gripped his heart during the daily trek from booking office to booking office. Despite the growing fear, the 32-year-old performer gave an election day party last Nov. 3 In his Manhattan apartment. The guests, who knew he couldn’t get a job, all enjoyed the party. Thompson did not. # n a HE sat apart from his old friends. They couldn’t cheer him. Along toward morning he donned a coat and started out. “Going to breakfast?” someone asked. “I’me going to throw myself in the river,” was the bitter response. That was a joke. ‘‘lt’s too cold a morning for suicide,” one guest suggested. “Wait till spring,” another chimed in. “Water wouldn’t hurt you at that,” another volunteered. Thompson left. His friends apparently thought nothing of the departure. And when a body was fished from the river a month later, Detective Frank McConville finally found an old room mate who once had bought shoes just like Thompson’s. They were S4O shoes. That’s how the body was identified.

RESENTS WET CHARGES Underhill Denies Flask Toters in House of Representatives. By United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 14.—There are no flask toters in the house of representatives, Representative Underhill (Rep., Mass.) declared in a speech today. Underhill replied to Representative Sweeney (Dem., .O.), anew member who recently lectured the house, and insinuated that some members took drinks in the cloak room before delivering prohibition speeches. Sweeney’s address was “an insult to men of the house,” Underhill declared. “There are no flask toters here,” he said. “Canards such as are repeated here are bringing discredit to this great body. It is a reflection on every member, whether wet or dry.” JOBS MADE BY <CITY Scores to Be Put to Work on Repainting Bridge Dron. Employment for several score laborers under the “made work program” will be provided by a painting project started today by the street commissioner’s department. W. H. Winship, street commissioner, reported to the works’ board that several extra men will be needed to repaint all iron work on bridges within the city. KANE WINS ACQUITTAL Intimates He Will Return to Place on U. of Tennessee Faculty. By United Press NEWPORT NEWS, Va.. Dec. 14. Elisha Kent Kane, acquitted on a charge of drowning his wife, will return to his place on the faculty of the University of Tennessee, he intimated today.

their money this year to supply those toys, clothes and other gifts which will bring happiness and dispel that bugaboo, depression. In the right foreground of the picture of the milling shoppers, a group is gathered around an interesting store window display. The photo shows the crowd stretching away to

300 PERILED IN BLIZZARD TRAP Fuel Nearly Gone, Roads Blocked by Snow. By United Press GALLUP, N. M., Dec. 14.—Their fuel supply exhausted, 300 men, women, and children trapped by a blizzard in the little mission at Ganado, Ariz., faced serious danger from cold today. Three tons of coal, trucked over a snow-choked road, reached the mission Sunday, but was enough for only eight hours. The temperature was down to 15 degrees below zero and colder weather was predicted. Eighty-one of the 300 were hospital patients in the Presbyterian mission hospital. Exposure to cold might prove fatal to many of them, already weakened by illness. Fences, corrals, frame buildings have been wrecked to_-obtain fuel. The coal truck which arrived at the mission broke through snowdrifts from six to fifteen feet deep. The driver and his aids dug through the deep drifts, but as fast as they finished digging and went on to the next drift, the wind whipped the snow back into the road, cutting them off in the rear. Pitiable conditions existed at the mission. Indians, wrapped in blankets, huddled in dormitories and the hospital, endeavoring to keep warm. Officials and teachers distributed all available clothing.

BRANDS FOOD GIVEN POOR ‘AWFUL;’ PROBE STARTED

Investigation of food distributed to Center township needy by Indianapolis groceries, for which the county pays, was launched today by county commissioners, after samples of “awful” food were inspected by them. Commisisoner John Shearer ex-

DENIED GAB; SUICIDE Youth, 18, Ends Life After Quarrel With Father. By Times Special • SANDBORN, Ind., Dec. 14. John Pahmeier, 18, asked for the use of the family automobile. His father refused. A bitter quarrel ensued, but the senior Pahmeier remained adamant and the youth left the house in a rage. He obtained an ax and returned to his home. He entered the garage and demolished the automobile. Leaving the twisted mass of wreckage he entered the house to confront his father again. He pulled out a pistol, placed the gun against his head, pulled the trigger and fell dead at his father’s. feet. Taxes Distributed By Times Special FRANKLIN, Ind., Dec. 14.—Distribution of $435,000, the total of the fall collection of taxes in Johnson county, is being made to various taxing units. A total of $53,000 in delinquent taxes is still on the books.

Warns Drivers Motorists were warned today that they must have both their certificate of title and poll tax receipt before the ywill be allowed to purchase their 1932 autemobile license plates. The warning came fronj James Carpenter, chief of the license bureau in the office of Secretary of State Frank Mayr Jr. Plate sales start Tuesday and there will be no exceptions to this rule, Carpenter declared.

the camera's horizon in an unbroken line except at Meridian street, a block away, wher the traffic sign jammed “east-and-west” pedestrians on the curb while shoppersautomobiles traversed Meridian street. The crowds, store officials claim, are as big as ever. Does that sound and look like depression? Hardly!

All Keyed Up Yale Boy Asks Question to Start a Riot That Lands Him in Jail.

By United Press NEW HAVEN, Conn., Dec. 14 A Yale student being initiated into membership in a fraternity approached a young lady on the street here, halted, and somewhat shame facedly asked her a question. "Can you direct me to a wooden Indian?” the student, who said he was George Porter, asked. The girl was so frightened that she fainted. That started something which ended in a fight, gunfire, a riot call and two arrests. Patrolman John Ahern arrested Porter because his question caused the girl to faint. John Farricielli went to Porter’s assistance, and punched the patrolman rather severely, when advised to mind his own business. Town boys, - attracted by the disturbance, held the policeman while Joseph punched some more, police said. The riot call followed. Fifteen patrolmen answered that call. When the riot squad arrived, the crow had fled, all except Porter, Farricielli, the girl and patrolman Ahern. Ahern revived the girl, and arrested Porter. Then several shots were fired to halt Farricielli, who started to run. He came back.

hibited meat, potatoes and apples which were contained in the basket Earl DeNoon, 2160 Bosart avenue, received Saturday night. The meat, boiling beef, was rancid, Shearer charged. Apples were of walnut size and potatoes were of a grade lower than those which are supposed to be distributed, the commissioner said. The groceries, Shearer said, were delivered by the Thomas Kaston Grocery Company, Twenty-second and Olney streets. "The county owes Kaston $751.12 for food claims,” Shearer said. "If this is the type of food he is sending out to the poor, and seeks county funds for it, he’ll wait a long time. If this condition is prevailing in the county, approved pay claims to grocers distributing bad food will be stopped.” • DeNoon receives aweekly basket on order of the Center township trustee. He works on public projects under the "made work” system. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 35 10 a. m 34 7a. m 35 11 a. m 33 8 a. m 34 12 (noon).. 33 9 a. m 34 1 p. m 33

PARLEY IS CALLED FOR SLASH IN WATER RATES

Petition for lower water rates will be discussed directly with Indianapolis Water Company officials at 2 today, in the first conference of civic leaders, city officials and utility chiefs. They will meet in the office of Harry K. Cuthbertson, public service commissioner, who suggested the conference method of settling the rate question. Mayor Reginald H Sullivan and his water rates committee will attempt to bare the truth about the financial setup, capitalization, operating costs, rates and return, dividends and inner workings of the utility properties. Comoromise on a rate schedule that will bring rates down to the level of present costs of production, allowing a reasonable return to the company, is to be sought at the conference. •*

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NEW MUTINY IN PRISON HALTED Leavenworth Convicts Plot to Cripple Light Plant. By United Press LEAVENWORTH, Kan., Dec. 14. —A mutiny of twenty convicts in the boiler plant at the Leavenworth federal penitentiary was suppressed by prison officials during the hours preceding dawn today. The mutiny apparently was the first step in a plot to throw the prison into complete darkness, in which guards would have been handicapped in putting down a riot. Sanford Bates, federal prison director, today took personal charge of the inquiry into the convict break from the penitentiary last Friday. Three of the prisoners met death after a battle with a posse. Three others were recaptured, and Earl Thayer, 65, the seventh member of the group, was still at large today.

GOLD SNAP ARRIVING Mercury to Touch 25 by Tuesday Morning. Mantle of cold weather was to be 'laid on Indianapolis’ shoulders tonight as the city and state felt, in a small degree, the severe drop in temperature that is sweeping the northwest. Borne on a twenty-eight-mile-an-hour wind, the cold weather from the Dakotas and vicinity, where the coldest in the United States was recorded at 4 below zero today. Mercury here is expected to slide during the day, to settle between 20 and 25 by Tuesday morning. The cold will continue through Tuesday. Snow flurries fell in Indianapolis early today after a light rain. Temperature reached 54 Sunday after the sun battled the rain for a few hours. It dropped to 34 at 8 today. Rain totaled .26 inch in Indianapolis over the week-end.

Picks Champion Central High school of South Bend today was ruled the outstanding Indiana prep gridiron team by Dick Miller of The Indianapolis Times sports staff. Gn the sports pages today, Miller announces his annual selection, which has the approval of the I. H. S. A. A. Miller, an outstanding official and gridiron expert, Tuesday will name for Times readers his annual all-state high school football team, the only recognized high school “all” selection in Indiana. Don’t miss it.

Cuthbertson suggested the conference method of settlement, after city officials, civic leaders and business representatives had filed a petition for lower rates with the public service commission. The conference may avoid an appraisal of utility properties. A similar committee, headed by the mayor, will confer with Indianapolis Fower and Light Company representatives at 10 a. m. Thursday. Members of the committee on water rates accompanying the mayor today will be William H. Insley, manufacturer; George L. Lehman, attorney; John F. White, Mrs. C. A. James, civic clubs’ representatives; Charles F. Remy, attorney, and Edward H. Knight and James E. Deery of the city legal department.

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JAPAN WORKS SECRETLY TO SEIZEEMPIRE Banks, Industries and Public Offices in Manchuria Are Taken Over. CHINESE ARE COWED Forced to Obey Orders of Foe, Backed by Might of Armies. BY FREDERICK KUH United Press Staff Correspondent (CoDvriKht. 1931. bv United Press) HARBIN, Manchuria, Dec. 14. The Japanese are taking possession of Manchuria’s political, business, financial and industrial organizations swiftly and silently—all behind the screen of military occupation “for protection of its nationals.” This control virtually is complete in Fengtien province. It soon will be completed in Heilungkiang and Kirin provinces. Military censorship has kept the world in ignorance of these important and significant development. The parts of Manchuria now occupied by Japanese troops are being transformed into a country resembling a Japanese colony. The correspondent, who has been through that occupied zone from Tsitsihar on the north to Chinchow on the south, is able for the first time to offer an uncensored description of Japanese control in foreign provinces, where Chinese authorities now are Japanese marionettes. Rule Banks and Industry Fengtien’s political, banking and Industrial activity are now in the hands of Japanese "advisors.” Their orders are law for Chinese officials. The Chinese police of Mukden are under the command of Japanese gendarmerie. Three Japanese advisors are directing the provincial bureau of finance and industry and the Mukden telephone exchange. A staff of Japanese censors supervises the Fengtien telegraph administration, through which not only newspaper correspondents, but consular representatives, are obliged to send reports. Control of Fengtien’s banks, industries, and public utilities wasj wrested from the Chinese. Suda, one of the Japanese advisors, together with eight Japanese councillors, is operating the Mukden frontier bank and the bank of three eastern provinces. Manage Trading Concern The Japanese have assumed management of the big Chinese trading concern company of Mukden. They have opened Chinese cotton mills under Japanese administration. The Japanese ejected the Chinese directors and assumed complete management of the Fuchouwan coal mine, the largest Chinese mine in south Manchuria. They ejected Chinese from the Sino-Japanese organization operating the Penhaihu coal mine. Installing a Japanese manager and Japanese department chiefs, the Japanese took entire control of the Chinese Steel and Poker Company of Mukden and closed the Chinese electric power plants at Changchun and Antung, pending establishment of Japanese management under the guise of SinoJapanese enterprises. Citing a military emergency as their reason, the Japanese, are controlling a vast network of Chinese railways in Manchuria for the purpose of realizing two primary objectives: 1. Elimination of Chinese competition against the Japanese-owned South Manchuria railway and Port Dairen, and 2. Achieving control of the Manchurian railroads by which tariff may be diverted from the Chinese eastern railroad, controlled by China and Soviet Russia.

Washington Fears Trouble BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS ScriDps-Howard Foreien Editor WASHINGTON, Dec. 14.—With peace or war between China and Japan still an even money bet, reports reaching the capital today gave rise to new and grave misgivings. The fall of Premier Wakatsuke and the rise of Premier Inukai of the opposition, means that the emperor has shed his velvet glove and picked up a “big stick” instead. It also means that Japan’s trend of the last decade away from Samurai, or warrior rule, has received a decided setback at a time when not only the peace of the Far East is in the balance, but peace machinery and disarmament as well. The party now in power in Tokio regards the undisputed control of Manchuria and Mongolia as indispensable to existence of the empire and aims to consolidate Japan’s hold on that part of the world, cost what it may. The army faction’s rise to power at this time is significant. It coincides with numerous disquieting renorts from Tokio, Mukden and other Far Eastern points. Dispatches indicate anew drive on Chichow is expected, despite definite pledges to Washington and the League of Nations. Other reports declare General Honjo has asked Tokio for important reinforcements, and that the head of the puppet government at Mukden has netitioned the Japanese to clear the Chinchow area of “bandits.” As Chinese forces of any description could be dubbed “bandits,” for all practical purposes, the way "ems wide open for further fighting.

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