Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 July 1943 — Page 2

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BEGAN CHINA WAR

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Today Is Seventh Anniversary of Marco Polo

Bridoe Incident Which Brought On Present Phase of Conflict.

By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS

Seripps-Howard Foreign Editor

WASHINGTON; .

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Fodayv, the anniversary of a

little skirmish at Marco Polo bridee near Peking, marks the

beginning of the seventh vear N tg. But

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phase of Sun Yat-Sen's 1

It was then tha the Japs began to § gend over swarms of Black Dragon members, sec? gociety t1 makers and ers-from-wit Backed by limited : these Black Dragon members gought out local ’ Chinese war lords -some with grievan ambitions and others plaih greedyv--and make war aaainst The Japs provided t wAaANONS to hoth sides Job was to keep China prevent unity, delay

givide and rule China Kept

In the 20 vears betweel 1832, China gome kind of direct result of kept her Such Japan's 3l-vear war ¢ The second phase was t economically and fin: forced Japanese goods pa customs, using freight trains and loading. As Chinese

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ne, pestilence, bribery

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this helped to impoverish government: third phase of Japanese aggressaw the use of secret diplomacy cked by threats of war, At the t of ‘the d to cram her notorious “21 deis” down China's throat. She ented these demands to Presifennt Yuan at the point of a pistol. Dire things would happen to him and to she said, unless he signed right then and there. America and China's other friends must not find out. The demands would have made a complete puppet of China but Yuan piayed for time, the secret leaked and Japan beat a

hasty retreat, .

Seized Shantung licked.

turned to the attack by another

Japan was hot She

Despite the fact that China

then an ally, Japan seized

Shantung and, at the end of the war, would have remained in eastfor allied especially on the part of President Wilson. Throughout the "20s. Japan continned to back various Chinese war lords. She tried to work her wiles on Kai-shek, t Canton, but failed to make headway. Then she ittempted to head off his march on 1928. She threw troops into Sinan-fu, an important railway junction, Yellow river crossing and key to Peking. But young Chiang by-passed the Japs and beat them agam

Generalissimo Chiang

1 . 2 hen a voung leader in

then that Japan began to concentrate on Manchuria. Japs murdered the old Marshal Chang I'so-lin, the Manchu war lord, bebecame fed up with their demands and refused to do as told Then thev tried to debauch his son and heir, the marshal”

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cause he

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When this failed, they blew up the

track of the South Manchuria railway, blamed it on “Chinese bandits” and, on that pretext. began the occupation of all terirtory north of the great wall. This was the famous September, 1931. “incident.” As neither the league of nations nor the great powers acted decisively, Japan kept on advancing. The war continued spasmodically through 1936. Japan cleaned up north of the wall, then crossed and started to do the same to the south. And so came the clash of July 7. 1937 —the skirmish at the bridge of Marco Polo. It was the beginning { yet another phase of the war s chief importance lies in the fact it provided history with a milemark the beginning of that the Sino-Japanese strugeventually was to merge with the second world war.

HEBREW PICNIC SET JOR NEXT SUNDAY

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United Hebrew congregapienie will be Sundav afternoon and evening at Columbia park with Louis Frank, general chairman of arrangements, Joseph D. Mitchell of recreation and Assisting Mr. Frank and Mr. {Mitchell are Morris Stein, Max | Yach, Max Berkovitz, Frank Berinard, Henry Silverman, I. Goldstein and B. Popp. Refreshments will be served and [the community is invited.

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HANNAH'S MISSING WITNESS IS FOUND

CHICAGO, July 7 (U. P.).—The Chicago Times, in a copyrighted | said yesterday that it had Yvette Muriel Colbert. French singer, who was named bv Hannah Williams Dempsey as the | “other woman” in her divorce suit

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against former heavyweight boxing champion Jack Dempsey. The Times said Miss Colbert was found in a rooming house on Chicago’'s near North side. She had been sought as a witness in Mrs. Dempsey’s portion of the Dempsevs’ double-barreled divorce action last month at White Plains, N. Y. Mrs. Dempsey dropped her suit because of her inability duce Yvette in court. case is’ being considered by a supreme court referee. According to the Times, the singer said she would not return to New York to reopen the case. The Times [quoted Yvette as saying she was { looking for a job in a Chicago night club.

WOMEN SOUGHT FOR WAVE TECHNICIANS

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VESSEL'S CAPTAIN IS SOUGHT BY SUB

BOSTON, July 7 '(t). P)—The 40-man crew of a small Norwegian merchantman is awaiting new ship berths today after their vessel was torpedoed and sunk by an enemy submarine in May in the Atlantic off the West African coast. The crew escaped in one motorboat. The submarine surfaced and officers questioned the first mate as to the whereabouts of the captain. { The mate replied evasively his skipper had been killed in the | explosion.

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