Word: chungkingers
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In China, the internal equalization of surplus and deficit areas has been upset by war. In Chungking, which formerly drew its rice from battle-pocked Hunan via the Yangtze, black-market prices of rice were 30 times pre-war prices last spring. Last year, to make matters worse, Szechwan, Chiang...
Last week, as if to underscore U.S. sincerity, the President prepared to send a top-notch military mission, headed by Brigadier-General John Magruder, to Chungking. A onetime military attaché in Peking, clearheaded, athletic General Magruder is well known in China.
Chungking withstood its 33rd bombing of the 1941 season last week. Of 135 Japanese planes that swarmed over Szechwan Province, 27 blasted the capital. Chinese huddling stoically in their shelters could tell by the way the earth shook that this raid, like those of the last few weeks, was as...
Last week China was in the front of the anti-Axis fight. Over the Burma Road moved supplies from her western allies. A U.S. military mission was going to Chungking. Last week Chinese land forces launched an offensive that carried them to the gates of Nanchang and Foochow, the latter...
Doubtless there were worse bombings yet in store for Chungking. But to China 1943 is barely tomorrow.