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General Dai Li and the Sino-American Co-Operative Organization
(Collier's, 1946)
Kind words are written herein by Lt. Commander Charles G. Dobbin regarding the "Himmler of the East", General Dai Li(1897 - 1946), founder of China's secret police under Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek (1887 – 1975). Written in 1946, this reminiscence concerns the tight cooperation that existed between General Li's guerrilla units and the American military (Sino-American Co-Operative Organization: S.A.C.O.) during the later years of the Second Sino-Japanese War. Dobbins emphasized how deeply General Dai Li's intelligence operatives were able to circulate during the period in which U.S. Rear Admiral Milton "Mary" Miles commanded the S.A.C.O. troops.
| Censors of the Japanese War Machine (Ken Magazine, 1938)
This article lists an innumerable amount of "DONT'S" issued to the officers of the foreign press stationed in Japanese-occupied China.
| The Japanese Homefront (Ken Magazine, 1938)
This 1938 article concerned the gas rationing and and other assorted inconveniences that the Japanese population had to suffer during the Sino-Japanese war. The journalist was also surprised to find that the general population was kept in a reasonable state of ignorance as to their military's intentions in China:"[The] Japanese behind the lines actually believe that their armies are marching to help the Chinese, to establish peace and to rid the world of the communist devil. Consequently, there is no hatred against the Chinese people. The often cited example of the Chinese community, living in Tokyo undisturbed and at ease, is no figment. Chinese dressed in their national costumes, have been among crowds that saw Nipponese soldiers march to the front and they were not molested." Some attention is paid to the sacrifices made by the Japanese industrial classes, such as the Yasuda, Iwasaki, and Mitsui families.
| The Battle at the Great Wall (Literary Digest, 1933)
"...Peiping Associated Press dispatches tell of a major battle between Japanese and Chinese armies for possession of Chiumenkow Pass in the Great Wall of China. The Pass is one of the most important gateways lead into the rich province of Jehol which, it is reported, Japan purposes to cut off from China and add to Manchukuo."
| The Japanese Soldier (Literary Digest, 1933)
Remarkable for lacking those politically correct qualities we're all so used to reading in today's writing, this magazine article presents a somewhat slanted, pro-Western vision of the Japanese Army as an organized and highly disciplined peasant army:
"Some of the finest raw material in the world makes up Japan's infantry...The material is not so adaptable for horsed and mechanized units, as the Japanese possess little natural aptitude for dealing with animals or machines."
Some attention is paid to the strict diet of the Japanese soldier.Click here to read a 1945 assessment of the World War II Japanese soldier.
| The Sacking of Nanking (Ken Magazine, 1938)
"The occupation of Nanking by the Japanese army in December, 1937, resulted in the greatest authenticated massacre in modern history.""Fifty thousand blood-crazed beasts in Japanese uniform roamed China's fallen capital for four weeks in a mad saturnalia of butchery, rape and pillage without parallel in modern history. That story, suppressed by the Japanese military who chased news correspondents and foreign officials out of Nanking, is told for the first time by one of the few Americans who remained, a 'go-between' for the U.S. Government with 20 years of service in China. He saw roped bundles of humanity saturated with gasoline and ignited for a Nipponese holiday."
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