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...first nine days, the Japanese Army shot out a dozen tentacles to the west and south, captured 1,800 sq.mi. of wheat-blanketed Honan flatland, took the town of Chengchow (prewar pop. 700,000), seized the historic Hulap pass to the west. Now the Chinese looked unhappily to the summer, when a Japanese-held rebuilt railway from Chengchow southward may well be used to feed a new offensive in central China...
...Japanese columns rumbled from their village bases, snaked westward across the knee-high wheat of Honan. Overhead, their aircraft roared on their way to bomb Chinese towns strung out along the Hwang Ho, the River of Sorrow...
...seize Honan's wheat crop, reputed to be good...
...Honan's people, emaciated after two years of famine, the enemy push held but one promise: another hungry year...
Last year three million Chinese died, 20 million were affected by the great Honan (Central China) famine. Chungking correspondents last week reported another famine, this time in the Kwangtung area in South China. More than 1,000,000 Chinese have died there since last June; millions more are in acute want...