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China's news seemed to be all bad. In the eastern theater, in Chekiang Province, where the Japanese Army wants to seize airfield's within reach of Japan and Formosa, Japanese reinforcements poured in from east, north and southeast, forming a huge, closing maw. A new spearhead pushed north from the Canton area. China's Chekiang-Kiangsi and Hankow-Canton railroads were eaten up mile by hard-fought mile. Yet Chiang was optimistic...
...Eastern Front below Shanghai in Chekiang Province, the need of planes was desperate. There the Jap pounded, without regard for his losses, at Kinhwa on the Hangchow-Nanchang railroad. His attack always had the support of plenty of dive-bombers. For a while the Chinese held, but in the end it was the old story...
...base for large-scale bombing attacks on Japan, as well as on Formosa, Hainan, Indo-China and other Japanese outpost bases. Particularly suited for such use would be the peninsula of Shantung Province, which reaches out toward Japan like an angry fist, and the great bulge of Chekiang Province, within four-motor range of half of Japan...
Chungking reported Sunday that heavy fighting was continuing in coastal Chekiang province, southeast of Shanghai, following the Japanese capture of the provisional provincial capital and key communications center, Kinhwa, and claimed that the Japanese had won their victories only by using "poison...
Once before, the Chinese said, Japanese flyers had tried to infect a Chinese city with plague. In 1940 they had dropped infected fleas on Chekiang Province. The fleas were wrapped in little cotton bags with rice or grain, to attract the rats which catch and spread the disease. But cold killed the rats first...