Order of Battle For Campaign of Northern and Eastern Honan 1938

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“They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.”
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“It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tossed upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth ... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.”
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“The winter is to a woman of fashion what, of yore, a campaign was to the soldiers of the Empire.”
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“In civilization, as in a southern latitude, man degenerates at length, and yields to the incursion of more northern tribes.”
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“And not by eastern windows only,
When daylight comes, comes in the light;
In front the sun climbs slow, how slowly!
But westward, look, the land is bright!”
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