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...supplies were coming in; that was the important thing. The Chinese high command, in new headquarters at Kunming, prepared to muster its best forces: the American-trained First and Sixth Armies from India, the troops of bushy-mustached, "100-Victories" Marshal Wei Li-huang, the battle-tried formations of hot-tempered, half-pint General Hsueh Yueh. From Yünnan's high plateau these troops could look out over China's gullied lands; strike out to aid the Allies who might some day land on the coast...
Unlike the army of Honan, this "was a first-rate fighting force,'partly equipped with U.S. howitzers and mortars, partly led by U.S.-trained officers, commanded by the seasoned veteran, General Wei Li-huang, whom his men call "100-victory Wei." Effective air support came from Major General Claire Chennault's Fourteenth Air Force...
Last week pubs and restaurants were crowded to capacity; foresighted people went early or made reservations. Social events included two lectures, "The Georgian Country Home" and "Six Centuries of Tun Huang." The Michaelmas term divorce list hit 2,000. Two million women had been registered, but only 575,463 interviewed, for war work. Parents had reclaimed 190,000 evacuated children. Fire watching was a nationwide must, but in some areas appeals for exemption ranged up to 90%. Air Marshal Portal traded his Humber for a big, black Packard...
...botanists have hunted through Asia and bred in the U.S. varieties which will prosper in each type of soil and climate in the eastern U.S. and which have increased the yield per acre from 11.5 bushels (1924-27) to 18.7 bushels (1937-40). Among the 2,500 varieties are Huang-tou, Manchu, Ito San and Hahto; Lexington, Tarheel Black, Illini, Wilson and Roosevelt-a vivid index to the Asiatic heritage and U.S. adoption of the plant...
From Fogg Museum itself a number of loans have been made. Prominent are two fragments of fresco from a cave at Tun Huang in Western China:--a Head of a Bodhisattva, and Three Old Men. These two paintings have that strange, unmistakable violet hue which results when the flesh tints have faded. From Mr. Warner's own collection a number of items are being displayed. In addition to a Japanese priest's mask and two gilt bronzes, there is a T'and painting (or print) of the priest Hsuan Tsang, carrying on his back the Holy Books that brought Buddhism...