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Said a furniture dealer: "I am at the end of my resources. Since 1938 the Japs have driven my family and me from Nanking, Hankow and Changsha...
Hengyang Holds Out. About 100,000 Japanese had fought down 100 miles from Changsha past Hengyang, straddling the Hankow-Canton railway on a 50-mile front (see map). In the face of Chinese high command blunders and confusion, the Japanese power reached farther south in this area than ever before. North to meet them from Canton drove another Japanese force. If the two joined, China would be split by a Japanese-garrisoned railway...
...heavy weapons for an army of riflemen and grenade-throwers, had become so vast that a new Burma Road could not satisfy it. Perhaps nothing less than an Allied landing on the China coast and the winning of a major supply port would do. Now the Japs, astride the Hankow-Canton line, threatened to cut this desperate hope. Certainly, until the blockade was thoroughly broken, no one could expect the ill-fed, ill-munitioned Chinese armies to take the offensive...
...enemy's plan had long been apparent. It was to secure the Peiping-Hankow-Canton railroad, firmly establish the Empire's equivocal hold on southeast China east of the railroad, knock out U.S. air bases there, and try to make the coast impregnable to U.S. attack. It was also to supplement sea supply lanes under fire from Chennault and American naval attack. But only in the last four weeks had the enemy decisively written his plan in military action...
...driven south through ruined Changsha, contested for the fourth time in five years. They marched on through quiet little Hengshan, near the five sacred Buddhist mountains. This week they pierced the outer gates of a vital rail junction, Hengyang-most important city sought by the Japanese since Canton and Hankow...