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...Foochow Recaptured
...Last week the Chinese retook Foochow. The Japanese could have held it - but they were concentrating all available for more spectacular adventures on the road to glory (see p. 23). The Chinese nevertheless thought the achievement brilliant. It was the first time since the Japanese had sealed the south China coast almost airtight last spring (TIME, May 5) that the Chinese had fought their way into possession of a major seaport...
...great smuggling rings of the China coast, with headquarters in swank Shanghai hotels and in Hong Kong, the recapture of Foochow meant cash in their itching palms...
...German and other flags, carrying gasoline, cloth, medicines, luxuries past the guns of the Japanese Navy. Profits were fantastic. For incoming gasoline the Chinese Government paid original costs plus expenses plus profit. Goods lost due to enemy action en route were also paid for. Out of such ports as Foochow the smugglers shipped much of the tung oil that repaid Chinese Government borrowing from...
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 on the coast 880 miles east of Chungking. China's minuscule but growing Air Force bombed Hanshan and Tsingteh, nearly 700 miles from Chungking, and returned without a casualty. By 1943 China expected to be strong enough in the air to bomb the Japanese on their own soil...