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...Commander of U.S. Air Forces in China sent his raiders over Hong Kong, plastering the docks, warehouses and power station of Britain's lost Crown Colony on the South China coast. In the succeeding week Hong Kong was raided twice again. Japan's White Cloud airdrome, near Canton was raided once...
...very poor fighting machine-"not a battleship at all." Assigned to the old cruiser Brooklyn, he immediately began tearing her apart in a report, remarked: "I invite you to take a look at the wreck of the Brooklyn when I get through with her." Of the monitor Monterey at Canton, he made only an informal complaint...
...washed the Jap out of the coastal province of Chekiang, most densely populated, most modern and one of the most productive (wheat, beans, rice, silk) provinces of China. It was forcing him out of Kiangsi, west of Chekiang. And farther south he was slowly falling back on Canton. The Jap had his explanations, while China rejoiced at getting its military feet back on the fertile fields of Chekiang, birthplace of Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. The Jap said he was preparing for other work. Probably he was. But as he thinned out his garrisons, the foundations of his conquest were magically washed...
...airdromes built with plodding care, and not to be able to use them for lack of bombers, was tough. But the Chinese fought on, took great cuts of the eastern railroads, pressed south as well as east. This week Chungking reported that its troops were only 40 miles from Canton, home of the revolution. The enemy was not as tough and strong as he used...
...write this story, in this cave that is our operations room, a red arrow on the map indicates that Jap planes are bombing the town of Kao-yao, 40 miles outside of Canton. Evidently they are so mad at being caught by us that they are taking it out on the helpless Chinese villages...