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HONG KONG-Chinese press dispatches from Amoy reported today that the Chinese forces defending the great Fukien port city were prepared to burn it to the ground before surrendering it to the Japanese...
Canton Japanese planes bomb military uniform factory near U.S. Consulate General 300 reported killed and 400 wounded--Airdromes, railway stations and marching troops bombed and machine-gunned at many places in Kwangtung, Fukien and Kiangsu Provinces
...Fukien University in Foochow, whose Chinese department is also Institute-subsidized, has been so harried by Japanese bombers that it has been proposed to move it further into the interior. This province is famous in China for the number and quality of its poets and scholars, and the work being carried on in the university by the Chinese scholars has dealt with local history and the ancient civilization of that region. It began the academic year with 169 students...
Universities which have carried on their work this year besides Yenching and Fukien, are Lingan University and West China Union University...
Between them, three years ago they performed one of the most extraordinary military feats of modern times: the great 2,000 mile retreat of a Communist army-cut off from supplies, living off the country, constantly harassed by the greatly superior forces of Chiang Kai-shek-from Fukien through western China to Shensi Province, where they set up another Communist state...