Modern Review February 1938

Rai Bahadur Dines Chandra Sen the author of the latest book on the history of Bengal has after referring to the varying boundaries of the Kingdom of Bengal in different historical periods accepted the physical features as the chief guide in settling the question. [...] There is nothing to choose between the Damodar the Rupaltrayan the Surarnarekha and the Vaiturani and north of the Ganges between the Mahfinaudit and the Kosi. [...] By a practical application of this principle Bengal for the purposes of our history should include not only the whole of the modern province of that name minus some hill tracts at the foot of the Himalayas in the north but also a few additional territories both on the east as well as on the west. [...] In the famous battle at Pinghsiangkwan a strategic pass on the Great Wall commanding one of the routes southward to the city of Taiyuanfu the Shansi capital the Eighth Route Army dealt the Japanese the first staggering blow they had received from any Chinese army of the north and north-west. [...] The battle continued all day yesterday and the Communist forces killed about 1 000 of the enemy and captured supplies Day before yesterday the Eighth Route Army and also the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China issued separate manifestoes to the Japanese soldiers calling upon them to cease the robber war they arc waging at the commands of their militarists who are enemies of both