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"The Chungking regime . . . insinuates that Wang Ching-wei is a puppet in the hands of Japan . . . having fallen victim to the fangs of Japanese aggression. . . .
Last week half that many-100 Curtiss P-40 planes-had reached Burma. For the past few months tall, bronzed American airmen have been quietly slipping away from eastand west-coast ports, making their way to Asia. Pilots to fly the P-4Os and ground crews to maintain them will...
In one of the longest (five hours) air raids in Chungking's three years of experience, the dugout's ventilation system had failed. The yellow vegetable-oil lamps had flickered out, one by one, for lack of oxygen. The thousands within had grown restive, then in panic had...
What made this modern Black Hole of Calcutta particularly painful was that Chungking is the only city on earth with sufficient dugout protection for its citizenry (400,000), that this dugout system had been considered death-proof, that the municipal-built dugouts had won the people's total, unquestioning...
Still carrying on at his desk, although relieved of his post and title by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek because of the catastrophe, was plucky, chubby Mayor K. C. ("Casey") Wu, still proud of his municipal-built dugouts. The confidence of Chungking's fighting little men in their Air-Raid...