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Swift as the crackle of the million popping firecrackers, the news flashed through Chungking: Changsha was still in Chinese hands, the Japanese drive was smashed. Into Chungking's twisting streets poured thousands of cheering citizens. The red glow of their torches cast dancing shadows on the ruins of their...
Desperately the Chinese tried to stem the advance. Skillfully General Hsueh Yo thinned his troops out in flanking columns, hoping to round the Japanese end. But the Japanese spearheads pushed on. Their bombers pounded the city mercilessly. Chungking admitted that some Japanese had entered the city, but insisted they had...
If the Japanese had taken Changsha, they had scored their first important victory in China since Ichang fell in June, 1940. Changsha was the focal point of all communications feeding the central front south of the Yangtze. Into Changsha for redistribution poured men and arms from Chungking, gasoline and supplies...
For weeks Chungking has been worried by the Hull-Nomura conversations. Last month Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek summoned U.S. Ambassador Clarence E. Gauss to his mountain cottage behind the Yangtze bluffs, asked for information. Ambassador Gauss, having none, could say nothing. Later, when President Roosevelt told the world that the...
Certainly not from China. The Japanese intention about remaining in China permanently is as clear as Yellow River mud. Prince Konoye said in March 1938: "We will never give up an inch of the territories already occupied." Prince Konoye said in July 1938: "Japan does not want an inch of...