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...enemy's plan had long been apparent. It was to secure the Peiping-Hankow-Canton railroad, firmly establish the Empire's equivocal hold on southeast China east of the railroad, knock out U.S. air bases there, and try to make the coast impregnable to U.S. attack. It was also to supplement sea supply lanes under fire from Chennault and American naval attack. But only in the last four weeks had the enemy decisively written his plan in military action...
...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...