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For some weeks the Japanese have been building up two great troop pools. One is at Hankow in central China, the other at Saigon in Indo-China. The latter might be used against India or Australia. But if the Japanese drives now under way are successful, both might be drawn...
Country's Man. "Let them come," the Gissimo said in the summer of 1940, when Chungking morale reached an all-war low, "let them drive me back into Tibet. In five years I will be back here and I will conquer all China again."
The Japanese appeared to be making rapid progress today in their campaign to clear major Chinese forces from the great Canton-Hankow-Shanghai triangle of southeast China and it was obvious that the position of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek's harassed government in Chungking was becoming increasingly difficult.
The newsreaders in Chungking, who had begun to feel the well-remembered, chill claustrophobia of having the Burma Road cut off, cheered and were happy. They knew that the strange, fanatic, face-lost Japanese would try again, but for a bit they could feel secure. They knew that they had...
> China National Aviation Corp., 45% Pan Am-owned, still functions under Pan Am management. Its chief job: keeping Chungking in contact with Calcutta, over the world's toughest flying route.