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...Control of seven key ports in North China. With Anglo-U.S. blessing bestowed in Yalta's secret agreements, the Russians are already entrenched at Port Arthur and Dairen. In addition they want Chinwang-tao, Chefoo, Weihaiwei, Tsingtao and Haichow. They would thus be stationed from the Great Wall south along the Shantung Peninsula, threatening the U.S. position in Korea and Japan. ¶ More food from Manchuria to Russia, though much of China faces famine. ¶ A labor force of 500,000 Chinese to work on projects in the Soviet Union. ¶ More rights for non-Chinese minorities (Turkis...
...pins knocked down than they bounce up again. Somewhat similar nightmares are said to be troubling Japanese generals, who bowl over Chinese towns one by one, only to have the Chinese seep in behind their advance and set them up again. Last week Japanese announced they had captured coastal Haichow (pronounced Hi, Joe) and Lungkow (Loong-Go), last Chinese-held ports north of Shanghai, and two inland Shantung towns...
...coordinated system of defenses like the French Maginot Line, but over a period of years the Chinese have built important numbers of cement pillbox forts in a sausage-shaped area. This is traversed by the curiously named Lung-hai Railway, so called because it starts from the sea at Haichow and penetrates far inland toward Lung mountain in Kansu, forming today the sole rail link down which Soviet munitions are brought to aid China. Chinese troops held towns far on the other side of the Hindenburg Line, and Chinese Communist forces were operating in Hopeh last week with such success...
...night last week Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek did not go to bed at all in his headquarters at Nanking. What was keeping him awake was not only the north and Shanghai fronts, but the city of Haichow where there was as yet no fighting at all, a seaport south of the Shantung peninsula, connected with railroads at Peiping and Nanking at Suchow. Japanese warships were off Haichow harbor, but did this mean more than the blockade of Chinese ports? If Japan had enough men to spare to land a third army at Haichow she could cut off help from Nanking...
...have the third largest fleet in the world, an effective blockade of China would still be a far easier move than an effective blockade of Spain. In all that coast there are just six ports with effective rail connection with China's interior north-to-south: Tientsin. Tsingtao, Haichow, Shanghai, Hangchow, Canton. Shanghai is bottled up. Tientsin Japan already controls. Blockading the other ports is none too difficult, was made a thousand times easier last week by President Roosevelt's order forbidding the exporting of munitions on U. S.-owned ships...