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...armies in Malaya, Thailand and Indo-China. Farther north, other Chinese armies hacked doggedly at the same strategic artery whose seizure by Japan a year ago brought China to the brink. On the central coast a third Chinese force, having dislodged the Japanese from the port of Foochow, fanned north and west, preparing a possible landing zone for U.S. forces...
Chungking had good news aplenty this week. On the coast, Japanese forces, apparently redeploying against a possible U.S. landing, abandoned the great port of Foochow. The high command announced a new Chinese offensive in the south, with the capture of Hochih, a heavily fortified rail town guarding Japan's supply route to Indo-China. And Chungking was still savoring its victory in the campaign for Chihkiang (TIME...
...weather closed in, soupy thick, as the southern attack group neared Formosa. (Western Pacific weather is far different from that of the sunny Gilberts and Marshalls.) But the 245-mile island was packed with targets; in the waters to the west were two enemy convoys; still farther west was Foochow, captured by the Japs only three months ago. At only one point was the enemy able to offer notable opposition: over Shinchiku airdrome, on Formosa, where 15 interceptors rose to give battle, and 12 were shot down...
...Foochow had fallen. But Free China, tired, grim and battered after more than seven years of almost unaided war against Japan, was observing an anniversary. It was Oct. 10, 33 years since Sun Yat-sen's revolution toppled the ancient Chinese Empire...
...Nations. Berlin, hungry for a crumb of comfort though it fell 5,000 miles away, proclaimed: "Japanese military authorities are busy making the necessary preparations to forestall an eventual American landing on the Chinese coast. . . . The bolstering of the defenses of Formosa is one of them. . . . The area of Foochow ... is likewise being furnished with a powerful defense system...