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To retaliate for a bombing of Hankow in which U.S. Liberator bombers shot down 35 of 50 intercepting Zeros, the Jap air force last week ordered 47 planes over Chungking to give the Chinese provisional capital its first raid in almost two years. Three times opposed on their way, only...
Richards Watts Jr., back from OWIing in the British Isles, wrote another farewell piece as the New York Herald Tribune's drama critic, prepared to join ex-Times Critic Brooks Atkinson in Chungking.
> Northwest Airlines is also contemplating new financing, to get funds to operate the world-straddling routes it applied for a fortnight ago. Northwest wants to fly from Seattle by way of the Aleutians to Tokyo, Shanghai, Chungking, Calcutta.
Tea for too Many. When Chungking became the war capital of Free China, thousands of officers and officials streamed to the bleak new headquarters, leaving their wives behind. Quietly at first, later quite openly, concubines moved in to ease the loneliness. Men without sons told one another that home life...
The trip was costly: large sums were needed to buy a passage through Jap lines and past bandit hordes. Many an ex' hausted wife reached Chungking penniless and almost naked to find a concubine in her rightful place. Too often the concubine was herself a "modern girl," unwilling to...