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...Seized almost all of the roadbed which in a few months would link Tokyo by rail and ferry with Hankow in middle China...
Target: Roadbeds. On the map of battle, Tokyo's first objective now be gan to assume shape: full control of the Peiping-Hankow railway. In 1938, the Chinese breached the Yellow river dikes, kept the enemy from this prize; last week, Japanese columns driving from north and south seemed to be close to attaining...
This week Chungking gloomily predicted that once the Peiping-Hankow line was in use, a new drive would be launched to seize the stretch from Hankow to Canton. The day that line is captured-and repaired-Japan will be able to rush men and supplies more freely than ever before to every corner of her Asiatic fortress...
...gain control of the Chinese-held stretch of the 775-mile long Peiping-Hankow Railroad. The Chinese had removed the rails and ruined the rail bed, but the ambitious Japanese may hope to rebuild the key line. Then a similar campaign could be launched to the south, to seize the Hankow-Canton railway. A 1,522-mile trunk railroad, spanning China's length from the Yellow to the South China Sea, would be worth a million tons of shipping to Japan...
...Fourteenth is still confined by geography and tactical limitations. It operates chiefly in the vast pocket of Central China south of the Yangtze, hedged in on the north and south by the two great Jap bases at Hankow and Canton. Its fighters and bombers provide an air umbrella of limited scope when the Jap in Central China and along the Salween front of western Yunnan stabs at the tough, resilient Chinese lines. But the Fourteenth has a consolation of sorts: its men know that they are contributing to a much greater show. Every ship sunk and every plane shot down...