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From Chungking, speculating on the Japanese offensive in Central China, TIME Correspondent Theodore H. White last week sent this report on the battle raging 300 miles away on the winding Yangtze:
Beyond the Mountains. Chungking was 300 miles away from the battle, and finger-thin gorges and towering peaks lay between the Japanese and the Chinese capital. Chungking was not threatened nor in any immediate danger.
New Threat? A dribble of hungry, ragged, ill-armed Chungking soldiers has trickled into the Nanking camp. The Jap last week claimed the desertion of 70,000 Free Chinese troops on the Honan front, about 400 miles northeast of this week's fierce battle for the Yangtze River gorges...
China's six-year-old war with Japan this week was at its gravest stage since the retreat from Burma a year ago. North of Changsha the Jap had opened a new, three-pronged drive with 50,000 men. Behind this offensive might be a plan to drive toward...
Chungking is 280 miles southwest of the Yangtze gorges. If the capital and its hinterland of Szechwan Province is the goal, strategy should call for complementary Jap drives from north and south.