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Robert G. V. Dallahan of Adams House and Canton, Massachusetts. His field is Classics and Comparative Philology...
Last week, from Chungking, Chinese reported sallies of their forces into the suburbs of Canton and Nanchang, long held by the Japanese. These were not harbingers of a final Chinese victory drive. But they were evidences that the Chinese Army was flexing its muscles and preparing...
...slugged the Japanese to a standstill in the 1932 Shanghai war, was among the commanders of relieving forces. Chinese troops were already reported battling in the Japanese rear at Tamshui, 28 miles north of the colony's border. The Chinese Air Force was in action over Canton, 80 miles up the Pearl River. These might be Chiang's carefully hoarded U.S. volunteers and their P-4Os, fighting for the first time. But Chiang's best troops and equipment were probably earmarked for the defense of the Burma Road, which is far more important than Hong Kong...
...plant at Canton, Ohio, already operating, where Westinghouse will supervise the building of gun mounts and turrets...
Franklin P. Metcalf, Professor of Botany at Lingman University, Canton, China, as Research Associate at the Arnold Arboretum; Ph.D. Cornell...