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From the 20,000-sq.-mile blighted area, refugees are streaming in hundreds of thousands along two main routes: the Lunghai railway and the trail of the old Peking-Hankow railway. The Government has placed a free train daily for refugee disposal along the Lunghai railway, which is carrying out 1,500 people every 24 hours. But the jammed cars, stuffed with clinging, clambering people, are evacuating only a portion of the stricken hordes. Four or five thousand people daily are setting out on the westward march along the line...
...China has built and sold more than $30,000,000 worth of planes and repair services to China, has built and operated three different plants as the Japanese bombed them out. Profit to Pawley: up to $1,000,000 a year. First Pawley was at Shanghai; then at Hankow up the Yangtze (where he made 78 bombers and repaired 90 fighters); finally at Loi Wing just over the border from Burma. The Japs caught up with his $1,000,000 Loi Wing factory, just after he had trucked most of its machinery and equipment over the Indian border...
That was not all. Never resting, within one short day Chennault's men flew to the port of Canton (see col. 1), where the Jap had entrenched himself along the Pearl River; attacked the Japanese base at Hankow; pounded Jap-held points at Nanchang, Sienning and Yochow on the Canton-Hankow railway...
Japanese territory. The enemy was off the field at Hankow down the Yangtze. At signal poles on Chungking's heights, civilians saw an old, familiar signal: yellow triangular lanterns, which told them that the enemy was on the wing...
...weeks the China task force ran off a dozen or more destructive raids, gave the spirit of China a big lift. From secret bases behind the gorges of the Yangtze, bombers thundered down the river and, above Hankow's two big airfields, released their bombs in symbolic, as well as practical, destruction. It was principally from Hankow that Jap planes drove Chungking underground for two bitter years...