Word: chungkingers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only a one-line announcement in Chungking newspapers revealed that Chiang and the Missimo had been in the northwest provinces (Sinkiang, Kansu, Ningsia, Shensi, Chinghai) for several weeks. Whom they talked with and where they went was a wartime secret. Only after Chiang had spoken to his top officials for...
Two Routes. A surprise was the revelation that two new supply routes to replace the lost Burma Road were in "full readiness" to handle U.S. supplies for the Chinese armies. One route, covering 4,500 miles, uses a railroad from the U.S. air supply base at Karachi in India, winds...
Delayed news reports and naval reticence prevented an up-to-the-minute picture of the action. But correspondents last week were allowed to cable that a temporary lull presumably meant the Japanese were readying a seaborne task force to recapture old positions. Chungking reported that the Japanese naval command had...
China on India. Alarmed last week were the Chinese, who reported new Japanese troop concentrations near the Burma-India border. Lauchlin Currie, President Roosevelt's envoy to China, told Washington that the Chungking Government is pressing for Indian mediation by the President. Repeatedly since the arrest of Gandhi and...
To hold such assets as the two big fields and all the other subsidiary 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...