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Japan's objectives in bombing Canton are: 1) destruction of the city's military defenses and crushing the southern terminus of the Hankow-Canton railway, China's main pipeline for supplies now pouring in through Britain's Crown Colony of Hong Kong. 90 miles south of Canton at the mouth of the Pearl River; 2) the demoralization of the civilian population. By the end of last week the first had not been achieved-Chinese anti-aircraft batteries still blazed away at the bombers, stores of munitions were still intact, and the vital railway was still open...
Already in Japanese hands are China's Boston (Peking), New York (Shanghai) and Washington (Nanking). Last week the Japanese pressed forward in a renewed drive to add China's Chicago (Hankow) to the collection. Capture of Hankow, temporary operating headquarters of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's Government since the fall of Nanking five months ago, would not complete the process of dismembering China but would leave the Chinese only a fraction of what was once their nation. In the Yangtze Valley, main trade stem of central China, industrial Hankow is second only to Shanghai. Into Hankow daily...
Japanese forces last week made their main push along the strategic Lunghai east-west railroad, which at Chengchow connects with the Peking-Hankow line (see map). Fortnight ago, retreating Chinese turned and drove an advance column of 10,000 Japanese, under famed little Lieutenant General Kenji Doihara, "Lawrence of Manchuria," into a bottleneck area between the broad Yellow River and the railway. For nine days Chinese forces, often behind providential screens of swirling yellow dust, charged at the Japanese ranks, attempted to wipe out the 10,000. Finally Japanese reinforcements forded the river from the north under artillery bombardment, helped...
...railway all week, allowing Lanfeng and Kaifeng to fall, finally holed up in Chengchow, and at week's end Japanese bombers hammered at the city. Japanese shock troops pressed at its sides. Capture of Chengchow would enable the Japanese to right-angle down 300 miles of railway to Hankow. Only serious obstacle in their path will be the Chinese defense fortifications in the southern Honan mountains near Sinyang. Meanwhile, two Japanese forces pushing from the Nanking area to Hankow, one paralleling the swollen Yangtze, the other striking overland through southern Anhwei Province, last week were bogged down by heavy...
...Hankow last week, nervous Government officials, believing the city's fall a matter of weeks, packed their families off to remote cities in southwestern China, started shipping Government archives and nonessential equipment to Chungking, officially the seat of the Government. Kweiyang, in Kweichow Province, and Yiin-nanfu, capital of Yunnan, only 400 miles from the Tibetan frontier...