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With troops to spare after the collapse of the Philippines and Burma, the Jap shot them into the China front in a score of places. His steel noose encircled China from Hankow on the north through Hong Kong on the coast to Myitkyina on the Burma frontier. On the southwest (Burma) side he felt his way up the severed Burma Road, slithered up the valleys out of Siam and Indo-China. He met desperate resistance by Chinese troops, who stopped him time after time, only to find he had popped up somewhere else...
They had taken a prize, and they knew what to do next. From beachheads down the coast, from Hankow on the north, the pounding went on. Chinese soldiers knew that it would not stop until the Jap was thrown back or until he had the whole eastern railroad system in his hands. With it would go more than the supply system for eastern Free China. With it would go many of the airdromes prepared by Chiang Kai-shek and his patient coolies for the blow at Japan that is yet to come...
...Japanese drove new spearheads into the Shanghai-Hankow-Canton triangle of southeast China today and appeared to be making continued progress in their whole effort to crush all Generalissimo Chaing Kai-shek's forces in this great region...
...some weeks the Japanese have been building up two great troop pools. One is at Hankow in central China, the other at Saigon in Indo-China. The latter might be used against India or Australia. But if the Japanese drives now under way are successful, both might be drawn on to crush China-the southern pool to drive toward Chungking from the south; the central pool to push a drive through Sian, severing northern from middle China and cutting off Chiang from his Russian friends. These two moves, undertaken together, would constitute a giant pincers movement on Chungking...
...Japanese appeared to be making rapid progress today in their campaign to clear major Chinese forces from the great Canton-Hankow-Shanghai triangle of southeast China and it was obvious that the position of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek's harassed government in Chungking was becoming increasingly difficult...