After pushing a slow and bloody advance for three weeks in the area east of the Lwan River, Japanese troops along the Yellow Sea coast between the Great Wall and Tientsin were suddenly halted last week, faced about.
Russia seemed to be part of the answer. Disputes over broad-gauge rolling stock held at the Soviet end of the Chinese Eastern Railroad, thus crippling service, were growing daily more acute (TIME, April 24). On the other side of the line Soviet troops were reported massing in numbers to equal the Japanese. In both Tokyo...
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