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November 11, 1937

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ATTACK ON NANKING BY LAND AND RIVER PLANNED BY JAPAN; Boom Across Yangtze Below China's Capital to Be Blasted by Forces of Invaders

By Unknown Author

On Shanghai front, Japanese shell Nantao to drive out defenders; land reinforcements at Hangchow Bay for drive on Yuyao and Hangchow; map; plan bombardment of Nanking from Yangtze River after destruction of barrier across river at Kiangyin; expected to demolish Whangpoo River barrier; attempt to land forces repulsed; on North China front, Japanese claim capture of Pingyao; planes bomb Amoy

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Vittorio Brambilla

1937Vittorio Brambilla, Italian race car driver (died 2001)[โ€ ]

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Rudy LaRusso

1937Rudy LaRusso, American basketball player (died 2004)[โ€ ]

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Stephen Lewis

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Alicia Ostriker

1937Alicia Ostriker, American poet and scholar[โ€ ]

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