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The Japanese were better off on their side of the gorge. They had the southern end of the Burma Road, over which they could transport medicine and materiel, move their men back to base hospitals. For the Chinese the section of the Burma Road which they held, winding on north...
The Party's Accomplishment. For a fortnight Chungking squirmed with rumors as party leaders fought out policy.
> Chinese reports said that 30,000 Japanese, replete with collapsible boats and other war gear, were massed across the Salween River apparently ready to strike toward Kunming, 230 miles eastward on the route to Chungking.
So last week Justin Brooks Atkinson packed his pipes and tobacco, a few travel necessities and a copy of Hamlet ("for relaxation") total 56 lb.-and hopped off for Chungking. There he will be resident correspondent for the Times.
Just before the A.E.F. took the offensive last week, China's shrewd Foreign Minister T. V. Soong, back in Chungking after more than two years' work in Washington, placed a heavy bet on the U.S. Seated beneath a portrait of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Minister Soong declared that the...