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...Japs use a vast aerial stagger system to guard their empire and train air crews for combat. Freshman flyers go to central China to bomb relatively undefended towns. Then they move by easy stages to Formosa for additional training. In the Canton-Hong Kong area, they next bomb southern China and come up against Chennault's Fourteenth Air Force. The survivors proceed to Thailand and Burma, where they still tangle with the Fourteenth and also with R.A.F. and U.S. airmen based in India. Last stop for those still alive is the Southwest Pacific, where the Japs concentrate their best...
There was such a movement of mankind -greater than either of these-that began in August 1937, when 30,000,000 Chinese left Canton, Hangkow, Tientsin, the cities along the coast and the villages near the invader. They moved from the fertile country of the northeast-10,000,000 of them-and from the southern and central coastal provinces-20,000,000 more. They walked 800 miles and more across the canyoned plateaus and jagged mountains and the plains, or poled sampans up the rivers when the tugs broke down, moved 77 colleges and universities inland and the machinery...
...Ying-Chin, 54, runs the Army. He joined Sun Yat-sen and Chiang in Canton as the nationalist revolution broke out, led one of the three armies in Chiang's campaign against the northern warlords in 1926. He has been Chief of Staff ever since. Ferociously antiCommunist, with several pet hates in his own Army, he holds all the strings and politically fears nothing. He works closely with Dr. H. H. Kung, 62, who controls Civil Administration. Brother-in-law of the Gissimo, "Daddy" Kung has for many years controlled Government finances, and is a great believer in printed...
...ming, high-born wife of China's new Ambassador to Washington, has devoted her life to the expression and defense of new ideas. At eight she tore the painful bandages from her feet; at 14 she bolted a parentally arranged marriage with the son of the Governor of Canton; at 17 she joined Sun Yat-sen's revolutionaries, smuggled bombs for the assassination of Manchu officials. After a French education she became China's first woman lawyer and judge...
...Canton's McKinley High School: a football game (35-to-0) against Massillon High; thereby breaking a winning streak of 52 games; before a crowd of 22,000; at Massillon, Ohio. Same day, ex-Massillon Coach Paul Brown, who made the Massillon Tigers into the country's most famed scholastic eleven (TIME, Nov. 2), saw his Ohio State University footballers lick Michigan, 21-to-7, for the Western Conference ("Big Ten") championship...