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Dream No Longer. To ATCmen such routes are no longer dreams. For months ATC has operated in the worst weather of the north subpolar country, has made operation routine. And no north-route flyer smiles as General George foretells the day when Americans may stop over on world trips in...
CHUNGKING -- Outnumbered Chinese troops fought stoutly today against two Japanese forces totalling 28,000 men which sought to drive them westward from Lake Tungting in the middle Yangtze area and street fighting was reported in several small towns and villages.
Chungking has never been a particularly happy city. It is at best a dark, damp, depressing place. But never before has there been such gloom as prevails this spring in China's capital.
Chungking is no longer a city of defiance, a place where men dream of their country's coming unity and progress, and act in the face of crisis. The inmates of Chungking-for many of them have come to feel like inmates rather than inhabitants-are gradually becoming spectators...
The consequence has been that Free China has lost internal fluidity. There is almost no motion except on foot, on donkeyback, on carts with wooden wheels. In Chungking there is one dilapidated alcohol-burning bus line; otherwise rickshas and sedan chairs are the only means of transportation.