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...ground, throwing flights into the air at the exact time and place for perfect interception of Jap forces. With more bombers and fighters now, he concentrates on overall tactics, shifting his planes in a pattern as intricate as a ballet. The Japanese, hitting back from their Formosa, Hankow, Canton and Indo-China bases, have learned much from their two years of combat with Chennault...
Subsequently, the Navy issued a bland statement that the change was made to eliminate red tape, to consolidate the arsenal with two others operated by Westinghouse at Canton, Ohio and Louisville. But Navy men let leak through the scuttle butt: Hudson had failed to produce up to expectations in the arsenal...
...shabby, weary Chinese cities, from Canton to Harbin, last week men noted that it was twelve years now since the start of World War II outside Mukden...
...puppets danced last week in Occupied China. Behind the scenes the Jap pulled the wires. Obediently representatives of Vichy and Nanking signed a document that surrendered the old French concessions in Tientsin, Hankow and Canton to the puppet Chinese Government of Wang Ching-wei. Bleated the Tokyo radio: "Conclusive evidence of collaboration in a new order in East Asia...
Until 1938 the main dependence of Free China for goods that gave her life -for trucks, tires, spare parts, lubricants, fuels, the things of mobility-was on the Hong Kong-Canton route of imports. Later, until 1940, it was on the roads and railway through Indo-China. Imports through Indo-China averaged 40,000 tons a month, and the Burma Road was an insignificant supplement-perhaps 3,000 tons a month. After the fall of France, the Burma Road was the only road into China, and imports over it were lifted to an unsatisfactory maximum of 14,000 tons...