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This story of war in China, readable at any time, is of a particular interest now which rates it high on U.S. best-seller lists. Its chief characters: a rich man, a Buddhist, a girl. Its setting: the: cities of Peking, Shanghai, Hankow, and the guerrilla-landscapes between. Its dominant theme: some of the effects of war upon the human spirit...
China had just passed through six of the most active weeks since the fall of Hankow in 1938. The Japanese had withdrawn troops from Ichang, lunged at Chinese-held Changsha and seized it, only to be driven out. The Chinese, in turn, had smashed at Japanese-held Ichang and held that city for three days; then they, too, had been driven out. The two campaigns balanced. They proved that the Japanese could not withdraw troops from extended outposts without jeopardizing them, could hold no new positions without reinforcements. They proved that without artillery the Chinese had no hope of putting...
...When Hankow fell three years ago the warlords grudgingly permitted Chiang Kai-shek to establish his national capital at Chungking in their Province. Chungking's first big bombing in May 1939 gave Chiang an excuse to establish control of that city and eastern Szechwan. Gradually he brought his own armies into the Province, thrust his appointees into provincial posts. He forced the warlords to send troops to the front, while his own men cracked down on opium bootlegging, main source of the corrupt warlords' revenue. By last year Chiang was so firmly in control that he could install...
Down from the north came Japanese columns, paralleling the strategic Hankow-Canton railway on both sides (see map). They meant business. Five regular divisions, two hundred planes were in this shove. Last time the Japanese pushed on Changsha the Chinese destroyed the roads, encircled the attackers, forced them into disastrous retreat. This time the Japanese brought with them six full regiments of engineers. Communications with the rear were to be kept open at all costs...
...grave new worries. Marshal Chiang Kai-shek's troops have been getting most of their war supplies from the southwest over the Burma Road, from the southeast by night smuggling from Hong Kong-via Chinese junks and coolies' carts-to the free sections of the Canton-Hankow railway. Last week the Japanese were slicing viciously at both supply lines...