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Show A Sample of the Next War Those who wonder what the next war may be like will be interested in-terested in the rapidity of the advance of several thousand Japanese Jap-anese scldiers, who recently shattered shat-tered Chinese resistance east of the Kingan mountains in Manchuria. Man-churia. With its infantrymen riding in motor trucks, accompanied by airplane, motorcycles and armored trains, the Japanese army took the Chinese by surprise and swept forward more than one hundred miles on the first day. Despite sub-zero weather and deep snow, the Japanese troops made an advance ad-vance of more than two hundred miles in four days, aided by airplanes air-planes which bombed Chinese concentrations con-centrations and troop trains. For those who may wonder why the Japanese conduct such expeditions, expe-ditions, It is pointed out that the Kingan mountains contain some of the finest forests and most extensive ex-tensive mineral deposits to be found in Manchuria. The alleuvial gold in the range has been estimated esti-mated at $2,500,000,000 in value. |