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From Burma this week TIME'S Correspondent Jack Belden sent the following report on the campaign that came to an unhappy end with the fall of Mandalay...
...ground, beset by natives who feared the Japs more than they liked the British, the Allies all but conceded the loss of Burma last week. As the retreating British prepared to demolish the oilfields and refineries in their rear, TIME'S Correspondent Jack Belden visited the front where Chinese troops defended Burma under U.S. command. His dispatch follows...
...your footnote in the Nov. 10 issue on last confirmed use of gas, by Italians in Ethiopia, following the story of Jack Belden, a fellow correspondent in the Far East who encountered Japanese use of gas in the battle of Ichang...
...first time in World War II-in spite of many earlier false reports-there was confirmation last week that one of the belligerents had used gas.* It came from pudgy-cheeked, moody Jack Belden of the International News Service, known as the ablest field correspondent assigned to the China war. Correspondent Belden likes to break away from his base and go off on long trips into the interior. He comes back with such stories as his classic accounts of the Chinese retreat in North China in 1937 and of the operational tactics of the New Fourth Army...
Correspondent Belden, fresh from the central front, last week, verified Chinese claims that the Japanese used gas in the battle of Ichang four weeks ago (TIME, Oct. 20). The Japanese had denied it. Jack Belden had seen soldiers suffering from gas blisters as large as tennis balls, whose skin was turning black...