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...Hupeh-Hunan border fighting provided the Chinese with a little object lesson in military fundamentals last week. A month ago the Chinese thrust the enemy back through the flatlands to the north bank of the Yangtze (TIME, June 14). The enemy had time to fortify only three small towns-Owchihkow, Shihshow and Hwajung, which they seized in March. The towns cover river communications between Hankow and Shasi...
...campaign had already netted the Japanese the most solid series of benefits since they cut off the Burma Road: 1) they devastated one of the fairest, richest corners of China, the Tungting Lake area of northern Hunan, which annually fed not only hundreds of thousands of troops but far-distanct provinces; 2) they cleared the riverway, brought gunboats and launches as far as Ichang to make of that spot a jumping-off base for a Chungking drive; 3 ) they struck a punishing blow at China's economic life...
CHUNGKING--The Chinese defenders of southern Yunan have repulsed all Japanese attempts to drive into the province and are counter-attacking the enemy on Burmese' soil, the Chinese High Command announced tonight in a communique that also reported heavy but inconclusive fighting in the Hupeh-Hunan area south of the Yangtze River...
...Japs closed one of China's last channels for smuggled goods and braced themselves for a final effort to drive the Chinese from coastal Fukien Province. With Fukien would go the best remaining bases in China for air attack on Japan. The Japanese also stabbed at interior Hunan with a double aim: to take an area valuable to Chiang Kai-shek's armies, to extend Jap control of eastern China's railways...
Fifty Japanese bombers pounded airfields in Fukien, Kiangsi, and Hunan Provinces in what the Central News Agency called a "deliberate effort to wipe out Allied air bases in east and south China." Some of the fields lay within 700 miles of Japan. The wonderful thing to the newspaper readers was word that planes of the Chinese air force had gone into the air to fight back; and had even bombed Japanese garrisons. "Hun hun hao," they said-"wonderful...