Word: cantons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Francisco-Los Angeles to Honolulu-Canton Island-Suva-Noumea-Auckland...
...Asiatic mainland, the Chinese captured Lungling, drove closer to the reopening of the Burma Road. Farther east, bitter fighting raged around the beleaguered Chinese city of Changsha, and from the south, around Canton, the Japanese launched another drive into the heart of China...
This week Chungking gloomily predicted that once the Peiping-Hankow line was in use, a new drive would be launched to seize the stretch from Hankow to Canton. The day that line is captured-and repaired-Japan will be able to rush men and supplies more freely than ever before to every corner of her Asiatic fortress...
...Chinese-held stretch of the 775-mile long Peiping-Hankow Railroad. The Chinese had removed the rails and ruined the rail bed, but the ambitious Japanese may hope to rebuild the key line. Then a similar campaign could be launched to the south, to seize the Hankow-Canton railway. A 1,522-mile trunk railroad, spanning China's length from the Yellow to the South China Sea, would be worth a million tons of shipping to Japan...
Hobby Horses. In Portland, Ore., Mayor Earl Riley got a letter from a woman in Canton, Ohio: "I have a hobby collecting horses and try to get one from each state as a souvenir. . . . Would you please oblige and send me one, any kind, as I have all kinds. Send C.O.D." Witness. In Bayonne, N.J., the late Dr. John Jay Hunt named "God Almighty" as witness to his will, bequeathed his patients' unpaid bills to the Salvation Army or the Red Cross, requested that his ashes be cast into the sea. The will was declared invalid because the signature...